Kirfitt Hall and Attached Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1950. Farmhouse.
Kirfitt Hall and Attached Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- lunar-baluster-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1950
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Kirfitt Hall and Attached Outbuilding, Casterton, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 617 794
- Coordinates
- 54.20904, -2.58762
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse, likely dating from the early 17th century, with significant remodelling in the late 17th century and an 18th-century outbuilding to the south. A further outshut was added later to the north-west. The building is constructed of stone rubble, with some roughcast rendering, and has slate roofs. It follows an L-shape, with an attached stair tower to the north-west and an outbuilding projecting to the south.
The north-east wing is two storeys high and four bays wide. Most windows have flat arches, although the window in the third bay of the ground floor has a stone lintel, indicating a former entrance. A blocked window is visible on the first floor of the first bay. The windows are a mix of casements and sashed windows with single glazing bars and horns. The entrance to the first bay is topped with a flat, bracketed canopy and studded door. Gable-end stacks are present. The rear of the building includes a two-storey outshut with a catslide roof, a stack, and dressed quoins, with small windows including remains of sashes on the ground floor. A lean-to conservatory with sashed windows is also present, along with a small outhouse and canopy over an entrance on the gable end, and two attic lights.
The north-west wing, also two storeys high, has double-chamfered-mullioned cross windows. The south-east facade has a single cross window on the ground floor and three above. The gable end of this wing includes two ground floor cross windows, one first-floor window, and a two-light attic window. The north-west facade features a projecting four-stage tower with a pyramidal roof. This tower has two-light windows on the top storey and a combination of two-light and cross windows on the front and return sides. The north-east gable end has a narrower, projecting gabled bay, likely later, with cross windows and a projecting gable-end stack on the wider part. Sashed windows have been inserted into former mullioned windows on the ground and first floors, with a two-light window in the attic. A blocked segmental-headed light is found on the left return.
A south wing adjoins the corner, with a catslide-roofed outshut attached to the north-east wing. The south-east facade has a pivoted door and a later sliding door, along with first-floor pigeon loft openings. The south-west gable end has a blocked window and a casement to the outshut, and a two-light window to the first floor. The north-west facade has two ground floor windows, one being a two-light window.
The interior includes an early to mid-17th century staircase with turned balusters and a plank and muntin partition with moulded muntins. The tower contains a late 17th-century staircase with turned balusters, square newels, and moulded rails, leading to a spiral staircase on the third floor. The house also has plank and muntin partitions and battened doors, some consisting of two panels. A portion of the house was uninhabited and dilapidated in 1987, having been so for many years.
Local climate
Kirfitt Hall and Attached Outbuilding sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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