Calder Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1989. House.
Calder Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- odd-jamb-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Calder Farmhouse, Ponsonby
- OS grid reference
- NY 039 034
- Coordinates
- 54.41736, -3.48239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Calder Farmhouse is a house dated 1829, constructed of roughcast stone with ashlar dressings. The northeast elevation features two storeys and three bays, with a central entrance plan. It has pilaster strips and a top frieze, along with coped gables. The windows are sashed with glazing bars and have stone surrounds. The entrance includes an overlight and a panelled door. A stone plaque on the building has an oval panel inscribed with: "1829/PER CURWENUM/THOMAS ET CHR/ISTIANAE CHOYCE/FILIUM DENUS/AEDificata/IWM". The house has gable-end stacks, and the southeast return includes a lean-to outshut. The southwest elevation also features sashed windows with glazing bars.
Local climate
Calder Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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