Steel's Farmhouse and Barns is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. Farmhouse, barn.

Steel's Farmhouse and Barns

WRENN ID
hallowed-finial-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 November 1984
Type
Farmhouse, barn
Address
Steel's Farmhouse and Barns, Waverton
OS grid reference
NY 221 502
Coordinates
54.84096, -3.21352
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Steel's Farmhouse and barns is a farmhouse with adjoining barns, dating from the mid to late 18th century. It features a reused dated and inscribed lintel marked R.M. I.M. 1663, likely originating from an earlier house on the same site. The exterior is finished with painted incised stucco over brick and has a graduated greenslate roof with brick chimney stacks. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three bays, with lower L-shaped brick barns to the right, which are covered by a 20th-century tile roof.

The main entrance consists of a top-glazed panelled door set in a pilastered surround beneath a pediment. The ground floor has double sash windows with glazing bars, while the upper floor features sash windows with glazing bars, all framed in painted stone surrounds. To the right, there is a similar window above a Tudor doorway with a chamfered surround, which is dated under a hood mould. The ground floor windows are equipped with internal panelled shutters.

The barns have blocked entrances, slit vents, and lofts. The side of the building includes a large cart entrance with half-plank doors, additional slit vents, and small upper windows to the right. The walls continue in sandstone to the right under a common roof, and there is a further single-storey barn with a sandstone slate roof.

Local climate

Steel's Farmhouse and Barns sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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