Howrigg Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. Farmhouse.
Howrigg Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fading-rotunda-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Howrigg Farmhouse, Westward
- OS grid reference
- NY 328 476
- Coordinates
- 54.81884, -3.04603
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Howrigg Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse built from snecked calciferous sandstone, featuring V-jointed quoins. It has a half-hipped roof made of graduated greenslate and includes stone chimney stacks. The building stands two storeys high and consists of three bays. A 20th-century door is set within an Ionic porch that is in antis. The windows are sash style and framed with stone architraves.
Local climate
Howrigg Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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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