Church House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1989. Farmhouse.
Church House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- outer-cobalt-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Church House Farmhouse, Ponsonby
- OS grid reference
- NY 041 053
- Coordinates
- 54.43416, -3.47964
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse constructed of roughcast stone with a slate roof. The north elevation features two storeys and four bays, with the fourth bay added later. The windows have plain surrounds and are sashed with glazing bars. The entrance, located in the second bay, has a plain surround and a pediment. The building has coped gables, gable-end stacks, and a cross-axial stack. At the rear, there is an outshut beneath a catslide roof and a gabled wing.
Local climate
Church House Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,570 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 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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