Farmhouse at Whygill Head (Known As Low Whygill) and Adj Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Farmhouse at Whygill Head (Known As Low Whygill) and Adj Barn

WRENN ID
fallen-foundation-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 April 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Farmhouse at Whygill Head (Known As Low Whygill) and Adj Barn, Asby, Westmorland and Furness, CA16 6QD
OS grid reference
NY 704 107
Coordinates
54.49159, -2.45818
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The farmhouse at Whygill Head, also known as Low Whygill, and the adjacent barn were built at different levels down a hillside, with construction dating from 1749 and later. The buildings are made of coursed, squared rubble with widely jointed stones and feature quoins. The lower section has a corrugated iron roof and includes a cross-passage with 20th-century garage doors on the left, which replaced a byre. Above the doors is a panel that is initialled and dated 1749. Access to the hay-loft is provided by steps at the rear.

The main house may have originally been a gable-entry plan to which the cross-passage was added. It features two rows of projecting through-stones and a graduated slate roof with stone end chimneys. There is a single 20th-century window on either side of a part-blocked central two-light stone mullioned window, along with two 20th-century windows on the first floor. At the rear, there is a single 20th-century casement window, a three-light stone mullioned window, and a blocked single-light window, with two more 20th-century casements on the first floor.

Up the slope, there is a byre with a hay-loft beneath a corrugated iron roof, and the range ends with a lower hay-loft under a separate corrugated iron roof.

Local climate

Farmhouse at Whygill Head (Known As Low Whygill) and Adj Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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