High Foul Syke and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Farmhouse.

High Foul Syke and Attached Barn

WRENN ID
rooted-roof-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
High Foul Syke and Attached Barn, Dent, Westmorland and Furness
OS grid reference
SD 689 876
Coordinates
54.28311, -2.47804
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

High Foul Syke is a farmhouse with an attached barn, likely built in the early 18th century and altered over time. It is constructed from roughly coursed sandstone rubble with small quoins and features a stone slate roof. The building has a single-depth, two-unit plan oriented on an east-west axis and faces north, with an added rear outshut to the first unit and the barn added at the west end.

The structure is two storeys tall and has a long facade with three windows. The openings are small and grouped symmetrically towards the center, featuring a square-headed doorway flanked by rectangular two-light casements, with three similar casements above (all of which seem to have replaced earlier fixed windows). There is a square corbelled chimney at the left gable and a ridge chimney at the junction to the right. The barn continues to the right at the same height and includes a square-headed doorway at the junction and a small window next to it. The left gable wall of the house has one window on each floor near the front corner, and the side of the outshut has a doorway. At the rear, the outshut is covered by a catslide roof and is built back-to-earth. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

High Foul Syke and Attached Barn 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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