Fea Fow is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Farmhouse.

Fea Fow

WRENN ID
half-wicket-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Fea Fow, Garsdale, Westmorland and Furness
OS grid reference
SD 773 940
Coordinates
54.34141, -2.3501
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fea Fow is a farmhouse that has been converted into a dwelling, with an added outhouse and porch-wing. It likely dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century and has undergone alterations in the 19th century, with recent renovations. The building is constructed from roughly coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and has remnants of whitewash, topped with a graduated stone slate roof. It has a single-depth, two-unit layout oriented on a south-west/north-east axis, facing south-east. The structure features a shallow outshut at the rear of the second unit, a prominent porch-wing at the center of the front, and a one-bay outbuilding to the left.

The exterior is two storeys high with three windows arranged in a 2:1 grouping. The single-storey porch-wing covers a square-headed doorway that is offset to the right of center. Above this porch, there is pitched water-tabling from a formerly higher porch. To the left, the ground floor includes two two-light mullioned windows, one with a lowered sill and the other with a raised lintel, both featuring a stone slate drip-band that runs out to the right. The first floor has a small two-light casement and a small three-light mullioned window, both with drip-bands. On the right side, the ground floor has a drip-band over a two-light window with renewed mullions and a chamfered one-light window. The upper floor has a three-light window, one mullion of which has been renewed, also with a similar drip-band. There is a square ridge chimney on the left and a gable chimney on the right. The porch-wing contains a doorway and window on the left side, with a window and chimney on the gable end. The outbuilding to the left has a doorway that abuts the junction. The rear features two very small windows on the left and a loft doorway to the outbuilding that has been altered to serve as a window.

Inside, the property has been refurbished but retains an 18th-century corbelled fireplace and a pegged principal-rafter roof truss, although the tie-beam has been severed.

Local climate

Fea Fow 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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