Gibbs Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. A C18 Farmhouse.

Gibbs Hall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
quiet-tower-sienna
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
Gibbs Hall Farmhouse, Dent, Westmorland and Furness
OS grid reference
SD 735 863
Coordinates
54.27242, -2.40825
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gibbs Hall Farmhouse is a farmhouse and cottage, now a house, likely built in the early to mid 18th century. It includes two spice cupboards dated 1705 and 1737 and consists of two sections that have been altered. The building is constructed of sandstone rubble, mostly coursed and watershot, with the third bay being random, and features quoins that are all painted white. It has a stone slate roof and a single-depth three-unit plan oriented on an east-west axis, facing south, with an added rear outshut at the center.

The exterior is two storeys high with four irregularly placed windows. The central bay has a gabled porch that shelters a square-headed doorway with a part-glazed door. To the left, there is a three-light window with flat-faced flush mullions, and above, a small square two-light casement along with a pair of small two-light mullioned windows offset to the left of center. The first bay on the left features a small two-light mullioned window at ground level, while the third bay on the right has a doorway at the junction, a square nine-pane fixed window to the right, and two nine-pane casements above. There is a ridge chimney at the junction of the first and second bays, and gable chimneys at both ends. The left gable wall includes a doorway, and the rear wall of this bay has a doorway leading to a hayloft. The right-hand gable wall has through-stones.

Inside, the first bay contains two substantial axial beams and an 18th-century fireplace with a corbelled lintel. The third bay features a smaller 18th-century fireplace flanked by the spice cupboards; one has butterfly hinges and bears the decorated raised lettering "1705" in the lower panel and the remains of "G B" in the upper panel, while the other has a square fielded panel with incised lettering "B / G M / 1737" (B stands for Burton). The farmhouse forms a group with Gibbs Hall, a telephone kiosk to the south, and a lime kiln to the northwest.

Local climate

Gibbs Hall Farmhouse 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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