Ribton House and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1985. House, barn.
Ribton House and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- ruined-lancet-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1985
- Type
- House, barn
- OS grid reference
- NY 050 307
- Coordinates
- 54.6626, -3.47343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ribton House and the adjoining barn are a farmhouse and barn dating from the early 19th century. They feature mixed calciferous sandstone and limestone rubble walls with angle pilasters, topped by a graduated greenslate roof with ashlar chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays, with the barn positioned at a right angle to the left rear. The house includes a 20th-century door and sash windows with glazing bars set in painted stone surrounds. The barn has a segmental carriage archway with blocked windows on either side and slit vents. There is also a further barn extension with a lower roof line.
Local climate
Ribton House and Adjoining Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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