Tarn House is a Grade II* listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1957. A Medieval Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Tarn House
- WRENN ID
- far-granite-lake
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1957
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Tarn House, Midgeholme, CA8 2PW
- OS grid reference
- NY 605 584
- Coordinates
- 54.91947, -2.61667
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tarn House is a late 15th-century farmhouse, originally built as a tower house for Humphrey, Lord Dacre. It was extended and altered in 1843, with initials T.(&) M.H. inscribed on a stone set into the wall. The building is constructed of calciferous sandstone rubble, with walls up to 2 metres thick in the tower. Some walls are over 1 metre thick. The roof is graduated slate with eaves modillions, and yellow brick chimney stacks on stone bases. The house has two storeys and consists of a three-bay tower with a two-bay extension under a common roof. The tower has a projecting stone gabled porch with a plank door and dated lintel. An angle buttress is present to the left, with a probable filled entrance between this and the porch. An original, small, filled ground floor window is on the right side; the small windows above date from 1843. The rear wall has large footing stones and a plinth. The original ground floor entrance is filled, and all other windows are from 1843. The extension on the left has a plank door with a plain stone surround. The ground floor has 2-light sash windows with glazing bars, and similar 2-pane sashes are above. Rear wall stonework may be from a former curtain wall. A documented reference from 1485 refers to a ‘new built house called Ternehouse’. The building overlooks Tindale Tarn and occupies a defensive site.
Local climate
Tarn House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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