The Swaites is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1957. Farmhouse.
The Swaites
- WRENN ID
- narrow-finial-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1957
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Swaites, Kingwater
- OS grid reference
- NY 560 666
- Coordinates
- 54.99261, -2.68819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swaites is a farmhouse dated 1839, located in Kingwater. It is constructed of whitewashed stone with a green slate roof and features end stone chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays, with a single-bay extension to the left under a common roof. The entrance includes a panelled door with glazed fanlights set in a plain painted stone surround. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, also in plain painted stone surrounds. The listing does not include the farm outbuildings.
Local climate
The Swaites sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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