Barn to North East of Blake Rigg is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1978. Barn.
Barn to North East of Blake Rigg
- WRENN ID
- tall-niche-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1978
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn to North East of Blake Rigg, Dyke Hall Lane, Dent, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 727 847
- Coordinates
- 54.25805, -2.41931
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a small barn or shippon located to the north-east of Blake Rigg, likely built in the 18th century and altered over time. It is constructed from large dry-jointed sandstone rubble that has been brought to courses, with quoins, and features a stone slate roof. The barn has a rectangular three-cell plan oriented on an east-west axis and faces south, with full-height internal stone partitions; the third cell is set back slightly.
The central section includes a doorway with a wooden lintel and a stone-slate drip-band, while the set-back third bay has a doorway at the junction with a stone lintel. The west gable wall features a doorway near the south corner, which has a stone lintel and a board door, along with a small opening near the rear corner.
Inside, the central bay has a wooden manger on the rear wall, and the purlin roofs are supported by stone partition walls. This barn is part of a significant and prominent farmstead group at Blake Rigg, forming a cohesive architectural context with Blake Rigg itself.
Local climate
Barn to North East of Blake Rigg 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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