Brunstock Farmhouse and Barns is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse, barn.
Brunstock Farmhouse and Barns
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-thatch-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- Address
- Brunstock Farmhouse and Barns, Stanwix Rural
- OS grid reference
- NY 417 594
- Coordinates
- 54.92662, -2.91121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brunstock Farmhouse and barns, originally part of Brunstock House's dairy, date from the late 1820s with additions from 1845, built for the Saul family. The farmhouse features English garden wall bond brickwork, which is whitewashed, and has a graduated stone-slate roof with double brick chimney stacks, one of which has a stone-coped gable. It is two storeys high and has three bays. The entrance includes a pointed chamfered stone arch and surround, complete with a hood mould and an iron-studded plank door. The ground floor windows consist of 2-3 light mullions with hood moulds and diamond cast-iron casements, though the central window has been altered to a double sash with the mullions removed. There are three corbelled-out dormer windows with crow-stepped gables; the central dormer retains its tripartite diamond cast-iron casements, while the flanking dormers have been changed to wooden and steel casements without glazing bars. The central dormer features weathered stone arms, and the other dormers have stone vents. The building has brick modillions, chimney stacks with recessed panels, and a dentilled cornice. The gable end displays a date stone from 1845.
Behind the farmhouse, facing the road, is a 2½ storey tower with similar windows and a gabled roof, which has rounded stone and an 1820s date, although it is partly cut away. This section has a similar entrance and windows to the right, while to the left are square-headed lancets with a continuous hood mould over a central panel inscribed "DAIRY." At right angles to the farmhouse, there are two-storey barns made of brick; the nearest barn has a slate roof from the 1980s, while the other has a graduated slate roof. The barns feature a large projecting cart entrance with plank doors and half-plank doors, along with slit vents on the upper floors.
Local climate
Brunstock Farmhouse and Barns 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% 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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