East Oldwall and Attached Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. Farmhouse.

East Oldwall and Attached Outbuildings

WRENN ID
winding-basalt-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 January 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
East Oldwall and Attached Outbuildings, Irthington
OS grid reference
NY 481 617
Coordinates
54.94774, -2.81069
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

East Old Wall and its attached outbuildings is a farmhouse dated 1701, which was restored in 1886. The building features red sandstone rubble walls and a Welsh slate roof, with yellow brick chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and has four bays, flanked by a two-storey wing with one bay on the left and a barn on the right. There are single-storey outbuildings at the extreme left.

The entrance has a plain quoined surround, with a 20th-century door and fanlight. The windows are 2-pane sash types with plain stone surrounds. To the left, there is a small filled window with a chamfered surround and a small wall sundial above it. The extension includes a 20th-century casement window on the ground floor and another casement with glazing bars above.

The outbuilding features a plank door with a plain stone surround and a 2-pane sash window with plain stone surrounds. The rear of the extension displays a reused lintel stone inscribed with the date and initials KAS, along with the inscription "RESTORED 1886 J.P. & M.A. LAW." Above this is a cockerel on a shield with the Latin inscription "DUM VIVO GAMAM," representing the Law family arms. The extension at the rear of the house has sandstone rubble walls, sash windows with glazing bars, and plain stone surrounds. The barn has two arched cart entrances with plank doors, while the single-storey outbuilding also features plank doors and plain stone surrounds. The property is aligned with and almost on top of the Roman Wall.

Local climate

East Oldwall and Attached Outbuildings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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