Schoose Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns is a Grade II* listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1985. Farmhouse, barn. 1 related planning application.

Schoose Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns

WRENN ID
gaunt-column-cream
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1985
Type
Farmhouse, barn
Address
Schoose Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns, CA14 4JB
OS grid reference
NY 014 280
Coordinates
54.63754, -3.52851
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Schoose Farmhouse and adjoining barns are a group of buildings that date from around 1800, originally constructed for John Christian Curwen. The farmhouse features roughcast walls and a 20th-century tiled roof with roughcast chimney stacks. The barns are built from calciferous sandstone and cobble rubble, with part of the roof covered in graduated greenslate and the remainder in corrugated asbestos. The structure is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with the barns forming an overall U-shape.

The farmhouse has a 20th-century door and sash windows set in painted stone surrounds, while the rear also features 20th-century windows in similar surrounds. The attached barn includes a central blocked segmental archway and flanking blocked doorways, with loft doorways in quoined surrounds. Upper-floor slit vents are framed with red brick. An L-shaped, two-storey right return has upper-floor slit vents, is partially roughcast, and has an inserted door in the gable. The outer face of this return also has an inserted entrance, loft doorways, and ground and first-floor window openings in plain stone surrounds. There are remains of an external stone stair to the right that leads to first-floor loading doors. This complex is part of a model farm.

Local climate

Schoose Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,540 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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