Fordsyke and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. Farmhouse.

Fordsyke and Adjoining Barn

WRENN ID
fallen-steel-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 January 1984
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
NY 457 632
Coordinates
54.96053, -2.84907
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fordsyke is a farmhouse dated 1765, featuring the initials CM on the lintel. It is built with English garden wall bond brickwork and red sandstone dressings, topped with a slate roof and a brick chimney stack. The house has two storeys and three bays. The entrance is a plank door with a chamfered surround. In the center, there is a double sash window without glazing bars, flanked by sash windows with glazing bars, and similar windows above, all with plain sandstone surrounds. The listing also includes an L-shaped red sandstone barn to the left, which has a Welsh slate roof, plank doors, and slit vents. There is a brick outbuilding attached to the rear of the house, but it has been significantly altered and is not included in the listing.

Local climate

Fordsyke and Adjoining Barn 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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