Potgill House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1999. Farmhouse.
Potgill House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-cobalt-jackdaw
- 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
- Address
- Potgill House, Hawes Road, Garsdale, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 701 909
- Coordinates
- 54.31369, -2.46049
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Potgill House is a small farmhouse, likely built in the early 18th century, which has undergone some alterations. It is constructed of slobbered rubble with quoins, and the west gable is rendered. The roofs are made of graduated stone slates, with some blue slate used for the outshut. The building has a single-depth, two-unit plan oriented on an east-west axis, facing south. It features a large rear outshut on the eastern half and an added lean-to on the western half.
The exterior is two storeys high and has two windows. There is a square-headed doorway that is offset to the right of the center, with a plain surround, a board door, and the gable-line of a former pitched canopy above. Each floor has two square top-hung casements; the ground floor windows have six panes, while those above have nine panes. Slender wrought-iron brackets support the gutters. The gable chimneys are present, with the right-hand chimney corbelled from the first floor.
On the right-hand return wall, there are through-stones on three levels, with one small rectangular window on each floor located behind the corbelled chimney, both having four panes. There is also a slightly larger rectangular window on the first floor of the outshut, which has plain glazing. At the rear, the almost full-height outshut features a low oblong nine-pane window on the left and a four-pane sash on the right, both with monolith lintels and stone slate drip-stones. The lean-to on the right has a four-pane fixed window, and the rear wall of the main range includes a small window that is partly covered by the roof of the lean-to.
The interior has not been inspected, but it is believed to contain lateral ceiling beams.
Local climate
Potgill House 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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