West Stonehouse Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

West Stonehouse Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall

WRENN ID
ghost-tallow-indigo
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
West Stonehouse Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall, Dent, Westmorland and Furness, LA10 5RL
OS grid reference
SD 771 859
Coordinates
54.26842, -2.35222
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

West Stonehouse Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the late 17th century and has undergone significant alterations and extensions in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of white-painted rubble, with the central portion featuring random stonework and quoins, while the outer sections are coursed stone, also with quoins. The building has a stone slate roof and a single-depth plan with three bays.

The exterior is two storeys high and features a symmetrical arrangement of windows with one window in each bay. The doorway is located to the left of the vertical joint between the first and second bays and is sheltered by a light wooden porch. The first bay has one square window on each floor, with 8-pane and 6-pane top-hung casements. The centre bay has a 6-pane top-hung casement at ground level and a smaller 4-pane window offset to the right on the first floor, along with the lintel of a former two-light mullioned window. The third bay also has one top-hung casement on each floor. There are gable chimneys and a ridge chimney at the junction of the second and third bays.

On the left gable wall, there is a top-hung casement on each floor near the rear corner, along with two cruciform tie-plates at eaves level. The right gable wall features a doorway protected by a roof extending from a lean-to outbuilding at the rear corner.

Approximately one metre in front of the farmhouse, attached to the west corner, is a low rubble garden wall that includes a gateway aligned with the front door. To the right of this gateway, the wall incorporates a dressed lintel from a former round-headed one-light window, which has a panel with crudely-formed and partially legible raised lettering that reads "C I[?] [?] 1710".

Inside, the farmhouse has been altered, but thick stone lateral partition walls suggest that the central area was originally a one-unit, two-storey dwelling, a style typical of this dale in the late 17th century. The farmhouse is part of a group that includes a barn located approximately 5 meters to the north.

Local climate

West Stonehouse Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall 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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