Scotchergill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. A C17 Farmhouse.

Scotchergill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
ragged-casement-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
Scotchergill Farmhouse, Dent, Westmorland and Furness
OS grid reference
SD 719 870
Coordinates
54.27851, -2.43162
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Scotchergill Farmhouse is a farmhouse with an attached store, likely once a house, dating from the late 17th century, with a cupboard dated 1675. It has been mostly remodeled and extended in the 19th century. The building is constructed from roughly coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, while the front of the main range is roughcast and painted, topped with a stone slate roof. The farmhouse has a T-plan layout formed by a two-unit main range on a north-south axis, with a 17th-century outshut at the rear of the northern unit and the store extending at the north end.

The exterior features two storeys and three windows, arranged almost symmetrically. There is a central doorway with a pentice canopy, a 4-pane sash window to the left, and coupled 4-pane sashes to the right. Above, there are three 4-pane sashes, and a gable chimney is located to the left. The earlier portion to the right has two higher storeys, with one 4-pane sash on each floor near the junction, a blocked doorway to the right of this, and two windows to the right, the second of which is smaller and now blocked, possibly a former fire-window. Gable chimneys are also present. At the rear, there is a prominent outshut of two low storeys featuring three former 2-light mullioned windows with chamfered surrounds, although they lack mullions. One window is on each floor to the left, and a stair-window is to the right, with the upper window having 12-pane fixed glazing and the others featuring stone-slate drip-bands. The store to the left includes a tall round-headed doorway and an altered square window above.

Inside, the house part in the second bay contains a large built-in cupboard with a single large 2-panel door on butterfly hinges. Above this door is a small square carved door with raised lettering "MT 1675" over a decorated diamond, which may have originally been a spice cupboard door.

Local climate

Scotchergill Farmhouse 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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