High Trees, West Farmhouse and Adjoining Byre Range is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1985. Farmhouse and byre range.

High Trees, West Farmhouse and Adjoining Byre Range

WRENN ID
rusted-forge-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1985
Type
Farmhouse and byre range
OS grid reference
NY 082 199
Coordinates
54.56668, -3.42116
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

High Trees is an original farmhouse, likely built in the mid-17th century, with later additions and alterations. The building features rendered rubble construction with rusticated quoins on a chamfered plinth, a first-floor lintel band, and a cornice on the main house front. It has graduated slate roofs and stone end chimneys, and it stands two storeys tall. The north elevation has three bays and is symmetrical, with a central glazed door framed by sash windows on either side and three additional sash windows above. The east side has a 20th-century glazed door within the original chamfered surround, now located inside a porch, along with a three-light mullioned window to the left, which is topped by a continuous hoodmould. Above this, there are two original and one replica two-light mullioned windows. To the south is the byre range, which shares the same roof and includes three doors (one of which is now blocked) and a 20th-century inserted window on the ground floor, along with a loft door and window above, which may have been a former door. An adjoining barn range at right angles to the byres is not of interest.

Local climate

High Trees, West Farmhouse and Adjoining Byre Range sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 58% 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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