Dovenby Craggs is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
Dovenby Craggs
- WRENN ID
- eastward-lime-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Dovenby Craggs, Papcastle
- OS grid reference
- NY 103 328
- Coordinates
- 54.68293, -3.39159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dovenby Craggs is an early 19th-century farmhouse. It features cement rendered walls with painted raised quoins and is topped by a hipped roof made of graduated greenslate, which includes rendered chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The entrance is a top-glazed panelled door set within a quoined surround. The windows are sash style, framed in painted stone surrounds. The adjoining farm buildings are not of interest.
Local climate
Dovenby Craggs sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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