Abbey Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1979. House.
Abbey Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- low-bailey-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- Abbey Farmhouse, B5345, St. Bees, Copeland
- OS grid reference
- NX 968 122
- Coordinates
- 54.49484, -3.59394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Farmhouse is a house dated 1679, with later additions and alterations. It was built by Richard Caton of Lancaster. The decorative door lintel on the north side features initials IL : B (for John Lowther, Baronet, the owner), RS (for Richard Stainton, the tenant), and TT (for Thomas Tickell, the estate steward). The main block, located to the right in the farmyard elevation, has incised stucco with rusticated quoins. It has a graduated slate roof with an outshut at the rear, along with stone copings and kneelers, and rendered mid and end chimneys. The house is symmetrical, with three storeys and three bays, each floor featuring sash windows (the second-floor sashes are smaller). There is a part-glazed door on the north side, with a sash window to the left on the ground floor and two sashes above on the first floor. All sashes have glazing bars set in stone surrounds. Adjoining the south side is a two-storey, two-bay block made of pebble-dashed rubble under a graduated slate roof, featuring a plank door and paired sashes in stone surrounds on the right side for each floor.
Local climate
Abbey Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,580 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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