Arkleby Hall and Flanking Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Arkleby Hall and Flanking Walls
- WRENN ID
- spare-barrel-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Arkleby Hall and Flanking Walls, Plumbland, CA7 2BQ
- OS grid reference
- NY 142 397
- Coordinates
- 54.74532, -3.33329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Arkleby Hall is a farmhouse dating from around 1740, which incorporates an earlier house built in 1725. It features the Thompson coat-of-arms above the front entrance. The exterior is finished with incised cement render, painted raised quoins, and a cornice, all set on a chamfered plinth. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and has coped gables with kneelers, along with yellow brick chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and an attic, with five bays of double span.
The entrance includes a top-glazed panelled door framed by a bolection architrave and a fluted plaster doorcase, topped with a large segmental pediment that encloses the coat-of-arms. The windows are sash style, set in painted stone architraves, with Yorkshire-sash attic windows in painted stone surrounds. The short, shaped flanking walls are an integral part of the house, with the left wall featuring a griffin holding the coat-of-arms. The rear wall has a round-headed two-light staircase window and small attic windows.
Inside, there is a datestone inscribed with "G & J.T. 1725" (for Gustavus and Johanna Thompson), which includes carvings of bears and men on horseback that do not appear to have any armorial significance. There are 20th-century extensions and farm buildings to the left that are not of interest.
Local climate
Arkleby Hall and Flanking Walls sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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