Combe House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1978. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Combe House
- WRENN ID
- upper-belfry-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1978
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Combe House, Dent, Westmorland and Furness, LA10 5QQ
- OS grid reference
- SD 681 875
- Coordinates
- 54.28264, -2.49075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Combe House is a derelict farmhouse, likely built in the early to mid 18th century, with some alterations. It is constructed from roughly-coursed blue ragstone rubble, with some sandstone, sandstone quoins, and gritstone dressings, topped by a stone slate roof that is partly collapsed. The building has a shallow double-depth plan and stands two storeys high.
The front facade, which was once almost symmetrical with two windows, has suffered significant collapse on the left side. The ground floor features a gabled porch that is now roofless, with a square-headed doorway and a stone-slate drip-course above. There are remnants of a three-tier triangular pattern of pigeon holes above the doorway. The left side wall has mostly collapsed, exposing former mullions that have been re-used as through-stones. On the right side, each floor has a small rectangular window that was originally sashed but now lacks joinery.
The left gable wall, which is also partly collapsed, has two small chamfered one-light windows near the corners of the ground floor, along with prominent through-stones and one remaining chimney-corbel. An attic window, similar to those on the ground floor, is located at the rear. The rear of the building retains a complete set of mullioned windows with chamfered flush-mullions: three lights, two lights, and two lights at ground floor (with the first and second windows each having one blocked light); a two-light stair-window in the centre (lacking the mullion); and three widely-separated two-light windows at the first floor, with the left window lacking the mullion.
Inside, the former housepart is located to the left, with a parlour to the right and shallow service rooms to the rear, along with a former staircase between these areas. The surviving right-hand portion of the roof features 19th or 20th-century trusses, while the collapsed section had original 18th-century trusses. There are no other surviving features of interest. Combe House forms a group with a barn located approximately 50 meters to the south.
Local climate
Combe 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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