Slack House and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1999. Farmhouse.
Slack House and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- gilded-niche-hyssop
- 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
- Slack House and Attached Barn, Hawes Road, Garsdale, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 736 898
- Coordinates
- 54.30349, -2.40682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Slack House is a farmhouse, now a house, with an attached barn, likely built in the late 17th century or early 18th century, and has been altered over time. The structure is made of slobbered rubble with quoins and features a slate roof with stone slates in the lower courses. It has a single depth plan with two main units and one smaller unit on an east-west axis, facing south. There is a shallow rear outshut, and the barn extends to the east with an additional barn attached at right angles to the southwest corner.
The exterior consists of two storeys, now with a configuration of three windows to one. A wide single-storey gabled porch is centrally located on the main range, flanked by one rectangular window on each floor to the left and two to the right, along with one window on each floor of the further bay to the right. All windows have been fitted with plastic double glazing. Remnants of former flush-mullioned windows can be seen, including a two-light window on each floor to the left and at least one one-light window above the porch. There is a gable chimney to the left and ridge chimneys at both junctions to the right. The barn to the right features through-stones, external steps leading to a loft doorway, and another doorway to the right of the steps. The barn attached at the left corner has an altered wagon doorway near the junction with the house, with long rubble voussoirs above the current lintel, and a blocked loading door to the left. The rear includes a shallow L-shaped outshut and a small three-light oak-mullioned window in the loft at the east end.
Inside, the house part to the right has two lateral beams; the first has a partition inserted beneath it for the entrance hall, while the second supports two bearers of a former smokehood, which once had a beef-box above it. There is also a built-in two-door cupboard with shaped fielded panels. The parlour to the left and the pantry behind it are crossed by a large lateral beam. The third bay features a similar lateral beam and includes a small bread oven built into the back of the chimney stack in the house part.
Local climate
Slack House and Attached Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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