Bleatarn Park is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1957. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Bleatarn Park
- WRENN ID
- twisted-brick-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1957
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bleatarn Park, Irthington, CA6 4ND
- OS grid reference
- NY 466 611
- Coordinates
- 54.94205, -2.83463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bleatarn Park is a farmhouse that likely dates from the early 17th century at the rear, with a facade added in the late 17th century, built for the Hetherington family. The building features rendered walls with stone dressings and quoins, topped by a graduated green slate roof with coped gables and kneelers at the rear, along with brick chimney stacks. It stands 2½ storeys high and has five bays. The entrance is framed by a moulded architrave and entablature, topped with a segmental pediment and a 19th-century plank door.
The windows are small Yorkshire sash types with glazing bars, set in chamfered stone surrounds. The cornice includes lintels from now-filled attic windows, and one side window retains the remains of a mullion. The earlier two-storey section of the house is incorporated at the rear under a common roof with a steep pitch. The walls are made of whitewashed sandstone rubble with a battered plinth, likely sourced from the nearby Roman Wall.
There are three small original window openings; one has a Yorkshire sash with glazing bars, while the others are ordinary sashes with glazing bars, all featuring chamfered surrounds. The remaining windows are 20th-century replacements in 19th-century openings. To the left, there is a washhouse extension under the common roof, which has a casement window with glazing bars. The window sill is a re-used lintel inscribed with the initials H.W. (Hetherington) and an illegible early 17th-century date, along with other unclear initials. This building may be identified as the Highstonehouse at Bleterne, mentioned in Lord William Howard's Survey from 1603. The listing does not include the other farm buildings.
Local climate
Bleatarn Park 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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