Barn to North East of High House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1984. Barn.

Barn to North East of High House

WRENN ID
deep-stronghold-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1984
Type
Barn
Address
Barn to North East of High House, High House Road, St. Bees
OS grid reference
NX 976 121
Coordinates
54.49445, -3.58197
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a bank barn located to the northeast of High House, inscribed and dated on a panel above the dovecote to William and Hannah Fox, 1810. The barn is constructed of coursed, squared rubble with quoins, while the additions are made of snecked rubble. It features a graduated slate roof with a stone ridge, copings, and kneelers.

On the south elevation, which faces the farmyard, there is a byre door and a fixed window to the right. Above the lintel, there is a low-relief head and a Greek inscription set into the wall. The central wagon door has an elliptical head, with a byre door to the left. Above this, there is a winnowing door, and to the left are dovecote openings arranged in four rows of eight. The barn also has ventilation slits at the eaves and a circular owl-hole on the east return.

At the center rear, there is a threshing floor wagon door under a porch. The door opens into storage outshuts on either side, with a byre door below the right-hand store.

Local climate

Barn to North East of High House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,580 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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