Abbot Holme House (West) and Attached Stable to West and Barn to East is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1999. A C17 Farmhouse, stable.

Abbot Holme House (West) and Attached Stable to West and Barn to East

WRENN ID
upper-jade-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1999
Type
Farmhouse, stable
Address
Abbot Holme House (West) and Attached Stable to West and Barn to East, Sedbergh, Westmorland and Furness
OS grid reference
SD 648 908
Coordinates
54.31189, -2.54248
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Abbot Holme House (west) is a farmhouse with an attached stable to the west and a barn or cart-shed to the east. It likely dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century and has been altered over time. The building is constructed of roughly-coursed mixed rubble with quoins, mostly white-washed, and features a graduated slate roof, with four courses of stone slate covering the stable. The house is oriented east-west, facing south, with the stable on the west side and the barn on the east.

The exterior of the house has a single-depth, two-unit plan and a rear outshut to the first bay. It stands two storeys tall and has three windows that are almost symmetrical. The front features a square-headed doorway that is offset to the left and protected by a simple stone-slab porch. To the left of the door is a square six-pane sash window, and above it, there is a four-pane sash window. There is also a similar four-pane sash window on each floor further to the right. A square chimney is located at the junction with the stable on the left, overlapping it, while there is a gable chimney on the right. The positioning of the windows suggests that there may have been a fire-window to the left of the porch in the past.

The stable continues to the left of the house and includes through-stones, a very small square window at ground level, and a segmental-headed doorway in the gable wall with rubble voussoirs. To the right of the house and slightly set back is a two-bay barn or cart-shed made of dry-jointed rubble, featuring a shallow segmental-arched wagon doorway with rubble voussoirs.

At the rear, there is a deep full-height outshut to the first bay of the house, topped with a catslide roof. A low lean-to loose-box is built in the angle with this outshut, and there is a flight of steps leading to the loft doorway of the stable. The interior has not been inspected. This building forms a group with Abbot Holme House (east) and Abbot Holme Bridge.

Local climate

Abbot Holme House (West) and Attached Stable to West and Barn to East sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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