Floriston Rigg and Adjoining Outbuildings with Gingang is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. Farmhouse, outbuilding.
Floriston Rigg and Adjoining Outbuildings with Gingang
- WRENN ID
- former-alcove-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse, outbuilding
- OS grid reference
- NY 358 642
- Coordinates
- 54.96836, -3.00285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Floriston Rigg and the adjoining outbuildings with gin-gang are a farmhouse and outbuildings dating from the early 19th century. They are constructed of whitewashed red sandstone with a Welsh slate roof and brick chimney stacks. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three bays. It features a 20th-century top-glazed door with a painted stone surround, and three-pane sash windows with plain painted stone surrounds. To the right, there is a two-storey, two-bay outbuilding with a hipped slate roof. To the left, an L-shaped sandstone outbuilding, also two storeys high, has a graduated slate roof, plank doors, and slit vents. Additionally, there is a single-storey lean-to brick threshing gin-gang with a hipped slate roof and unglazed openings.
Local climate
Floriston Rigg and Adjoining Outbuildings with Gingang sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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