Granary East of Schoose Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1985. Granary.

Granary East of Schoose Farmhouse

WRENN ID
pitched-spire-gorse
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1985
Type
Granary
Address
Granary East of Schoose Farmhouse, Workington
OS grid reference
NY 015 280
Coordinates
54.6375, -3.52759
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The granary and dairy east of Schoose Farmhouse, built around 1800 for John Christian Curwen, is now used as a farm store. It is constructed from calciferous sandstone rubble with flush quoins and has a hipped roof made of graduated greenslate. The building has three storeys and features nine bays. The right portion includes ashlar steps leading to loft doorways on two levels beneath a hoist gablet. The ground-floor segmental-headed doorways have been blocked to create windows, while the upper floor has louvred windows set in plain stone surrounds. The left portion features an enlarged 20th-century cart doorway and brick-blocked windows, also in plain stone surrounds. There is a vaulted basement that was formerly used as a dairy. To the left, there is a single-storey cell with one bay, made of rubble with large quoins, a chimney, and roof vents. A rear lean-to asbestos shed is not of interest. This granary is part of a model farm and is listed for its group value with other farm buildings.

Local climate

Granary East of Schoose Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,540 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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