The Beck Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. Farmhouse.

The Beck Farmhouse

WRENN ID
heavy-flue-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 January 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
The Beck Farmhouse, Irthington
OS grid reference
NY 505 634
Coordinates
54.96316, -2.77396
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Beck Farmhouse is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the late 18th century. It features stucco walls with raised quoins and stone dressings, topped by a green slate roof and 20th-century brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has three bays, with a single-storey extension to the right that has two bays. The main entrance includes a six-panel door with a glazed fanlight set within a rounded architrave, which has a reeded key and impost blocks. The windows are sash style with glazing bars and have plain stone surrounds. The extension is constructed of dressed red sandstone, with 20th-century sash windows featuring glazing bars and good replacement surrounds. The listing does not include the outbuildings.

Local climate

The Beck Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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