Old Farmhouse and Old Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House, outbuilding. 4 related planning applications.

Old Farmhouse and Old Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
mired-screen-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1970
Type
House, outbuilding
Address
Old Farmhouse and Old Farm Cottage, Skelwith, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 0HT
OS grid reference
NY 350 028
Coordinates
54.41703, -3.0024
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Farmhouse and Old Farm Cottage date from the early 18th century, with later additions. They are built of roughcast stone with a stone rubble outbuilding, all under a slate roof. The original farmhouse is two storeys and four bays wide, though the first bay appears to be a later addition, indicated by a projecting slate course over the ground floor. Remnants of a slate dripcourse are visible over the ground floor. Most windows are sash windows with vertical glazing bars; one window in the second bay has 28 panes. Casement windows are found in the first bay. The first bay has a plain entrance, while a gabled porch is present on the third bay. There are gable-end stacks, one on the right gable and one on the former left gable. An outbuilding to the right includes an entrance, a sash window, and two garage doors. The rear of the property features an outshut with a cat slide roof and a gabled wing. Inside, features include chamfered beams, wide-boarded doors with H-L hinges, a stone staircase, and wide floorboards on the first floor.

Local climate

Old Farmhouse and Old Farm Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 8 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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