Birkby Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. Farmhouse.
Birkby Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ragged-shingle-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Birkby Farmhouse, Crosscanonby
- OS grid reference
- NY 059 373
- Coordinates
- 54.72272, -3.46172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birkby Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1727, as inscribed above the entrance. It features painted dressed sandstone walls with raised quoins and an eaves cornice, set on a chamfered plinth. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and has coped gables with kneelers, along with cement rendered chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has five bays. The entrance consists of a two-panel round-headed door framed by a pilastered surround with imposts and a false keystone. The windows are casements set in painted stone architraves, with the one above the entrance being false. An adjoining extension to the right is not of interest.
Local climate
Birkby Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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