Low Nun House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1954. Farmhouse.

Low Nun House

WRENN ID
roaming-window-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1954
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Low Nun House, Deepdale Lane, Dent, Westmorland and Furness
OS grid reference
SD 719 855
Coordinates
54.26458, -2.43223
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Low Nun House is a farmhouse built in the later 19th century, which incorporates some earlier materials. It features a construction of slobbered rubble with some quoins and has a graduated slate roof. The building has a cruciform plan, consisting of a two-unit main range oriented on a north-south axis, with a porch on the west side and a porch-wing on the east side, along with a lean-to outbuilding at the south end.

The house is two storeys high and has three windows. The gabled porch, which is offset to the right of center, includes a doorway on the south side and a 17th-century style round-headed window on the front wall. This window has leaded glazing, a stepped surround, and medallions in the spandrels, as well as a stone slate hoodmould. The roof of the porch features oversailing eaves and verges supported by wooden brackets. To the left of the porch is a square two-light stair-window, and each floor has two square two-light windows, all of which are small-paned with Gothick glazing bars. There are gable chimneys, and a full-height lean-to is located at the south end. The rear wing also has a doorway and a round-headed window similar to those found in the front porch. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Low Nun House 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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