Waver Bridge Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1967. Farmhouse, barn.

Waver Bridge Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns

WRENN ID
south-hammer-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 April 1967
Type
Farmhouse, barn
OS grid reference
NY 223 489
Coordinates
54.82958, -3.2105
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Waver Bridge Farmhouse and the adjoining barns date from the early 18th century, incorporating part of an earlier house inscribed with the date 1670 above the rear entrance. The barns are from the late 18th or early 19th century. The building features English garden wall bond brickwork and a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers, along with brick chimney stacks. The rear ground floor is made of whitewashed stone.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with five bays and has flanking two-storey barns that have a lower roof line. The rear of the house has a projection that forms a T-shape, which is the original part of the house. There is a 20th-century door set in a painted stone architrave. The right side has sash windows with glazing bars, while the window over the entrance and the upper floor to the left are two-pane sashes, all within painted stone architraves. To the left of the entrance is a larger sash window with glazing bars in a late 18th-century painted stone surround, and there is a blocked window on the extreme left.

The barns feature slit vents, with the one on the left having ground floor openings under wooden lintels. The end wall of the barn on the right has a large plank door for cart access, with a loft above. At the rear of the house, there is a side entrance beneath an inscribed lintel with a pointed soffit.

Local climate

Waver Bridge Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns 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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