Old Wall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. Farmhouse.
Old Wall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- under-jade-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Wall Farmhouse, Irthington, Carlisle
- OS grid reference
- NY 479 616
- Coordinates
- 54.94704, -2.81473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Wall Farmhouse is a late 18th-century farmhouse with rendered walls, raised quoins, and stone dressings. It features a Welsh slate roof and 20th-century brick chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays, with an extension to the right that has a lower roof line and a single bay. The entrance includes a 20th-century door with a patterned fanlight, surrounded by a plain surround with a round arch and a false keystone. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, except for two on the right, which are two-pane sashes. The listing does not include the other farm buildings.
Local climate
Old Wall Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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