The Thorn is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House, former farmhouse.
The Thorn
- WRENN ID
- noble-threshold-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, former farmhouse
- Address
- The Thorn, Stanwix Rural
- OS grid reference
- NY 409 581
- Coordinates
- 54.91437, -2.92328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thorn is a house, formerly a farmhouse, built in the late 18th century. It features English garden wall bond brickwork and a graduated slate roof, along with brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has three bays, with a two-storey, two-bay extension on the right side that shares the same roof. The entrance is framed by a plain stone surround with a moulded round-headed arch. The windows have flat brick arches and are fitted with sashes that include glazing bars. The front door is a six-panel design with a single-pane fanlight above it. The listing also includes a two-storey extension at the rear, which has a stone-slate roof.
Local climate
The Thorn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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