Rash House 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.

Rash House

WRENN ID
turning-lantern-ivory
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
Rash House, Dent, Westmorland and Furness, LA9 5AP
OS grid reference
SD 661 899
Coordinates
54.30391, -2.52117
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rash House is a farmhouse, now a house, likely built in the mid-18th century and altered over time. It features white-washed, roughly-coursed rubble with quoins and a slate roof. The building has a double-depth plan and includes a short service wing to the right, which is now in ruins.

The exterior is two storeys high with an attic and has two windows that are almost symmetrical. A continuous stone slate drip-course runs over the ground floor. The ground floor has a square-headed doorway that is slightly offset to the right of centre, featuring an 18th-century fielded panel door with shouldered top panels. This door is protected by a small gabled porch made of monolith stone slab sides, which are now bowed outwards, and a stone slate roof. Flanking the doorway are square two-light casements. The first floor has two-light casements with glazing bars that align vertically with those below. There are gable chimneys. The former two-storey service wing is partly collapsed and lacks an upper floor, but it retains stone shelving from a former dairy.

Inside, the housepart to the right has doors with fielded panelling, while the parlour to the left features a built-in cupboard with matching double doors. There is a doglegged staircase with a closed string, rectangular newels, and short turned balusters on the upper flight. The chamber doorways are coupled and have fielded panel doors. The roof consists of two large pegged collar trusses with raked struts, with the principals seemingly made from reused cruck blades. Rash House forms a group with the barn to the south.

Local climate

Rash House 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 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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