Kelleth Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. Farmhouse.
Kelleth Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- weathered-flint-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Kelleth Farmhouse, Orton, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 661 052
- Coordinates
- 54.44133, -2.52406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kelleth Farmhouse is a large house, likely built in the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features an undated lead rainwater head with the raised initials G. & E.W. The exterior is made of limewashed rubble on a plinth with quoins, topped with graduated slate roofs that have stone copings and kneelers. The house has a double-pile plan with wings that project to the front and is two storeys high with five bays arranged in a 1:3:1 pattern.
The main block includes a central panelled door set within a segment-headed porch. On either side of this door, there are two-light windows in a 20th-century mullioned surround on each floor. The right-hand wing has a panelled door in a corniced doorcase at the gable end, with a two-light window above it, and similar windows on each floor of the gable end of the left-hand wing. These windows have original stone mullioned surrounds, featuring fake (incised) gauging to segmental lintels, and all windows are square-leaded.
On the inner face of each wing, between the floors, there are semicircular-headed stone panels decorated with incised paterae. An ornate, octagonal wrought-iron lantern is positioned at the outer corner of the left-hand wing. The house also has a dentilled eaves cornice with a concealed gutter and stepped, corniced stone end chimneys.
Local climate
Kelleth Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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