Westknowe and Farm Buildings Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. Farmhouse.
Westknowe and Farm Buildings Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- vacant-quartz-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NY 483 655
- Coordinates
- 54.98169, -2.80814
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westknowe is a farmhouse dated 1763, located in Irthington. It features rendered walls with stone dressings and a Welsh slate roof that has coped gables and kneelers, along with one stone chimney stack and one 20th-century brick chimney stack. The building is two storeys high and has four bays. A projecting gabled porch with a slate roof is situated at the front, with a 20th-century door on the right side. The windows are 2-pane sash windows with plain stone surrounds, and the east gable has a filled attic window.
Adjoining the farmhouse at the rear are farm buildings that form a square farmyard. These buildings are constructed of sandstone rubble and have graduated slate roofs. There is an arched cart entrance on the east side and a corresponding flat arch on the west side. The west range includes a 20th-century door and garage doors, while the east range retains original plank doors for the lofts and stables. The north range features plank doors, slit vents, and several filled doorways and arches.
Local climate
Westknowe and Farm Buildings Adjoining sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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