Garth House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Garth House
- WRENN ID
- riven-landing-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Garth House, Castle Carrock, CA8 9NB
- OS grid reference
- NY 543 553
- Coordinates
- 54.89084, -2.71285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garth House is a farmhouse dated 1667, as indicated by the initials I.H. and M.H. above the entrance. The building features limewashed rendered walls resting on large footing stones and has a graduated slate roof with end stone chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and has three bays. The 20th-century door has a chamfered surround and an inscribed, dated lintel with a hood mould. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are framed by plain painted 19th-century surrounds, and there is a small fire window located at the extreme right. The listing does not include the farm outbuildings.
Local climate
Garth House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 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 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings