Low Dockrayrigg is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. A C19 Farmhouse.
Low Dockrayrigg
- WRENN ID
- knotted-bailey-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Low Dockrayrigg, Woodside
- OS grid reference
- NY 256 504
- Coordinates
- 54.84308, -3.15947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Dockrayrigg is a farmhouse dated 1810, with the initials J & M.B (Banks) inscribed above the entrance. It features sandstone rubble walls topped with a graduated greenslate roof, which has an ashlar chimney stack on the right and a brick chimney on the left. The building is two storeys high and has two bays. The entrance includes a 20th-century door set within a painted stone architrave and is topped by a pediment. The windows are sash style, framed in painted stone surrounds, and there is a tripartite staircase window at the rear. An L-shaped extension and barns to the left are not of interest.
Local climate
Low Dockrayrigg sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% 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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