Parkgate Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. Farmhouse.
Parkgate Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tangled-corridor-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Parkgate Farmhouse, Waverton
- OS grid reference
- NY 215 468
- Coordinates
- 54.81018, -3.22226
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Parkgate Farmhouse is a late 18th-century farmhouse constructed from hammer-dressed red sandstone. It features an eaves cornice and V-jointed quoins set on a chamfered plinth. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and has coped gables with kneelers, along with rebuilt brick chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays. The entrance includes a six-panel door with panelled reveals, framed by an eared architrave under a pediment. The windows are sash style, set within painted stone architraves.
Local climate
Parkgate Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
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