Farmbuildings Situated 30 Metres North North West of Birdoswald Farmhouse or Tenement is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1990. Farmbuilding.

Farmbuildings Situated 30 Metres North North West of Birdoswald Farmhouse or Tenement

WRENN ID
broken-tower-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 March 1990
Type
Farmbuilding
OS grid reference
NY 614 663
Coordinates
54.98992, -2.60358
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The farm buildings located 30 meters north-northwest of Birdoswald Farmhouse, likely built around 1858, consist of a hay-storage barn, byre, stabling and tack-room, pig sties, and an ash house, all arranged around a small yard. The structures are made of coursed rubble masonry and feature Welsh slate gable-end roofs, with one and two storeys. This group is part of a larger farmstead, which includes a roadside range and buildings converted for use as an exhibition centre and shop, although those are not listed.

In the southern range, there is an ash house with a planked door and a small opening for depositing ash, a tack room with a planked door and a casement window, and a cart shed with double planked doors that have strap hinges beneath a flat wooden lintel. The western range includes a storage room accessed from the south via external stone stairs and a 'stable-type' door, leading into the stable area through a large stone elliptically headed arched doorway. Adjacent to this is the byre, which features two elliptical stone arched entrances facing the yard.

The northern range contains the barn, which has two openings facing the yard with elliptical headed archways and high sills, used for hay storage, along with a large vehicular entrance to the east. The eastern range, which closes off the yard, includes two pig sties with planked doors and strap hinges, as well as blocked swill holes. The roofs are generally constructed of sawn timber, except for the byre, which has a rougher side-purlin roof.

Local climate

Farmbuildings Situated 30 Metres North North West of Birdoswald Farmhouse or Tenement sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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