The Ash is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1957. Farmhouse.
The Ash
- WRENN ID
- grim-postern-plover
- 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 Ash, Bewcastle
- OS grid reference
- NY 510 764
- Coordinates
- 55.08029, -2.76843
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ash is a farmhouse dated 1738, built for the Greenwell family, and incorporates earlier architectural features. It is constructed from squared and coursed calciferous sandstone rubble, set on a chamfered plinth with raised V-jointed quoins, a string course, and a plain cornice. The rear extension is partly made of brick on stone with ashlar quoins. The roof is covered with Welsh slate and features coped gables and kneelers, with one chimney stack made of stone and another rebuilt in brick.
The building has two storeys and five bays, with a T-shaped extension at the rear. The entrance features a 20th-century door set in a moulded architrave with a segmental moulded pediment that includes a segmental glazed fanlight. The date is displayed in two parts on either side of the entrance. The windows are 2-pane sashes set in moulded stone architraves. The right side wall has two small blocked attic windows, and the rear wall has a similar blocked window on the second floor. An out-shut to the right includes a reused 17th-century moulded kneeler. The rear extension has a 20th-century glazed porch and 20th-century windows, along with a small square ground floor window with a chamfered surround. Outbuildings are excluded from the listing.
Local climate
The Ash 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 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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