Miresyke Farmhouse and Barn Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.

Miresyke Farmhouse and Barn Adjoining

WRENN ID
ragged-step-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
NY 122 224
Coordinates
54.58995, -3.35992
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Miresyke Farmhouse and the adjoining barn are located in Loweswater and date internally to 1691, with alterations from the 18th and 19th centuries. The farmhouse features roughcast walls and is topped with a graduated greenslate roof, complete with roughcast chimney stacks. The barn, which is adjacent, has incised render and a corrugated-iron roof.

The farmhouse is two storeys tall and consists of three bays, with the barn positioned lower to the right. A cross passage separates the two structures and includes a panelled door set within a 19th-century rendered porch. This porch partly obscures a weathered lintel that is dated and inscribed, possibly reading "M 1710". The farmhouse has sash windows framed in 19th-century painted stone surrounds. The barn features 20th-century ground-floor casement windows and slit vents on three levels.

At the rear of the farmhouse, there are outshuts that include early 18th-century flat stone-mullioned windows. The rear of the barn has an outshut with an upper-floor granary doorway that has been boarded over, giving it the appearance of a spinning gallery.

Inside the farmhouse, there is an inglenook and a heck partition supported by a fluted pilaster from the 18th century. The interior also includes recesses for a salt and spice cupboard flanking a moulded stone fireplace that is dated and inscribed "IM 1691". The ceiling beams are boxed in, and there is a built-in panelled court cupboard dated and inscribed "I. & I.M. 1691". Throughout the house, there are panelled doors, with those leading to the bedrooms featuring painted friezes. One door depicts a huntsman and hounds chasing a deer, while another is inscribed with the names John & Mary Mirehouse and the year 1726.

Local climate

Miresyke Farmhouse and Barn Adjoining sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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