The Kennels and the Kennels Cottage and Adjoining Barns is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1986. House, barn.
The Kennels and the Kennels Cottage and Adjoining Barns
- WRENN ID
- worn-gallery-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1986
- Type
- House, barn
- OS grid reference
- NY 354 442
- Coordinates
- 54.78914, -3.00611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kennels and The Kennels Cottage, along with adjoining barns, are two houses and barns that were formerly known as Beech Cottages. The Kennels features an inscription over the barn entrance reading "R. & I.R. 1682" and another over the house entrance stating "R. & E.R. 1697", with 20th-century additions and alterations. The Kennels Cottage dates back to the early 18th century. The buildings have whitewashed and rendered sandstone rubble walls, a Welsh slate roof, and corrugated asbestos on the barn to the left.
The Kennels Cottage is two storeys high with three bays and a lower barn to the left. It has a 20th-century plank door and sash windows with glazing bars, all set in painted stone surrounds. There is a ground floor 20th-century casement window to the right of the entrance. The barn has a blank front wall with a lower shippon. The Kennels shares a common roof with the barn of The Kennels Cottage; it is also two storeys and three bays, with an angled barn to the left under the shared roof.
The cross passage entrance of The Kennels has a heavily moulded surround with a shaped lintel, which has been cut away to provide better headroom. The 20th-century casement windows are in 20th-century surrounds but remain within the original openings. The rear of The Kennels has a 20th-century extension. The barn features a similar entrance with a dated shaped lintel and a sash window to the right in a painted stone surround, with a shippon to the left. The rear of the barn has a large cart entrance.
Local climate
The Kennels and the Kennels Cottage and Adjoining Barns sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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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