Banks Foot and Adjoining Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1984. Farmhouse.

Banks Foot and Adjoining Outbuildings

WRENN ID
fading-wall-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 June 1984
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
NY 565 643
Coordinates
54.97213, -2.68084
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Banks Foot is a farmhouse with adjoining outbuildings, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed from a mix of calciferous and red sandstone rubble, featuring raised V-jointed quoins and a plain cornice. The roof is made of Welsh slate, and there are yellow brick chimney stacks at each end. The building has two storeys and three bays, with L-shaped outbuildings to the right.

The main entrance consists of a six-panel door with a glazed fanlight, set within a quoined surround that includes a keyed entablature. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, framed by plain stone surrounds. At the rear, there is a staircase window with intersecting glazing bars set in a round-headed arch.

The two-storey outbuilding has a lower roofline and features sash windows with glazing bars closest to the house. There are small ground floor openings to the right, with slit vents above them. An extension to the right has round-arched ground floor openings and plank loft doors above, with external stone steps leading to the loft on the end wall.

Adjacent to the right is a hexagonal gin-gang, which has a steeply pitched hipped green slate roof and features partly glazed windows on each face. The listing does not include 20th-century outbuildings.

Local climate

Banks Foot and Adjoining Outbuildings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% 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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