Barn and Cottage Attached to West End of High Birks Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Barn, cottage.
Barn and Cottage Attached to West End of High Birks Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- brooding-marble-oak
- 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
- Barn, cottage
- OS grid reference
- SD 651 914
- Coordinates
- 54.31748, -2.53785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a bank barn and cottage, likely built in the early 19th century, and has been altered over time. It features mixed random rubble construction with quoins, and the cottage is white-washed. The roof is made of stone slate and is set on two levels. The structure has a linear plan oriented east-west, with the barn consisting of four structural bays and the cottage having one bay at its right-hand end, attached to the west gable of High Birks Farmhouse.
The exterior of the barn has two very unequal storeys, with a low shippon forming the ground floor at the front and a much taller upper floor accessed from higher ground at the rear. There are four doorways leading to the shippon, with a small window at the right-hand end. On the left end, there is a doorway with a stone lintel and a slate-course run out to the right. Another doorway, offset left of centre, also has a stone lintel, while a pair of doorways with rubble voussoirs is found offset right of centre. To the right of these doorways is a small square window with a stone lintel. Above the second doorway, there is a loading door. The rear of the barn features a wagon doorway with a pair of 19th-century harr-hung doors. Inside, the barn retains original boskins in the shippon and three 19th-century roof trusses.
The attached cottage has two low storeys and one window. It includes a doorway at the junction with the barn and one six-pane sashed window on each floor to the right. The interior has not been inspected. This building forms a group with High Birks Farmhouse.
Local climate
Barn and Cottage Attached to West End of High Birks Farmhouse 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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