Shorthorn Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. Farmhouse.
Shorthorn Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- eastward-brick-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Shorthorn Farmhouse, B5278, Lower Holker
- OS grid reference
- SD 360 770
- Coordinates
- 54.18534, -2.98102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shorthorn Farmhouse is a farmhouse built before 1849, possibly by George Webster. It features roughcast stone with rock-faced stone dressings and a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has four bays, with the fourth bay breaking forward under a gable. It includes quoins and decorative bargeboards. The windows have label moulds over rock-faced lintels and consist of casements with two or three lights, featuring iron glazing bars arranged in octagon and square patterns typical of the Holker estate. The second bay on the first floor has a window under a gablet, with a cross casement. The entrance to the second bay is marked by an open timber lean-to porch with a gablet. There is a gable-end stack and a cross-axial stack. The right return of the building has three bays with a projecting gabled bay and a re-entrant hipped porch leading to the entrance.
Local climate
Shorthorn Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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