Marsh House and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1984. A Late C18 Farmhouse and barn.
Marsh House and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- distant-pinnacle-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse and barn
- OS grid reference
- NY 276 591
- Coordinates
- 54.9216, -3.12988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marsh House and the adjoining barn are a farmhouse and barn dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The house features incised stucco on a chamfered plinth, with raised quoins and an eaves cornice. It has a graduated greenslate roof and chimney stacks made of ashlar and 20th-century brick. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. To the right is a two-storey barn with a lower roof line. The house has a 20th-century door set in a prostyle Tuscan porch that includes an ornamental frieze and a dentilled cornice. The windows are two-pane sash style with flat arches, false keystones, and painted stone sills. The barn, constructed of cobbles and also featuring a graduated greenslate roof, has two-pane sash windows and two blocked windows in plain painted stone surrounds closest to the house, along with a slit vent to the right.
Local climate
Marsh House and Adjoining Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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