Barn Formerly Adjoining Dixon's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. Barn.
Barn Formerly Adjoining Dixon's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-screen-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- NY 156 534
- Coordinates
- 54.8685, -3.31571
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn that was built in the early 19th century and was formerly adjoining Dixon's Cottage. The walls are made of a mix of cobbles and sandstone rubble, and it has a graduated greenslate roof. The barn is a single storey with a loft. There is a cart entrance on the north side and a flat-arched door on the south elevation. Both sides of the barn feature two rows of ventilated slits. Additionally, there is a lean-to stone extension on the east side.
Local climate
Barn Formerly Adjoining Dixon's Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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