Unthank Farmhouse and Barns Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. Farmhouse and barns.
Unthank Farmhouse and Barns Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- high-newel-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse and barns
- OS grid reference
- NY 452 359
- Coordinates
- 54.71583, -2.85063
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Unthank Farmhouse and the adjoining barns date back to 1685, as indicated by a weathered inscription above the entrance, though they have undergone extensive alterations and additions in the 19th century. The structure is built from a mix of sandstone and cobble rubble. The farmhouse features a Welsh slate roof and banded stone chimney stacks, while the barns are topped with sandstone slate roofs.
The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with a barn extension on the right and a three-bay barn at a right angle to the left, all under a common L-shaped roof. The cross-passage entrance has a plank door set in a chamfered stone surround. There are sash windows in chamfered stone surrounds, some of which may be original, along with a smaller fire window on the right. The right barn extension has had its walls raised from a single storey during the 19th century and features plank doors and loft doorways, with sash windows in 19th-century stone surrounds on the part nearest the house.
The left barn includes a segmental cart entrance on the left and additional doors on the right beneath a loft doorway. Inside, there are old beams, including a fire beam and a salt cupboard, along with two old doors. The back kitchen has a 18th-century stone fireplace. The pent extensions in front of the left barn are not of particular interest.
Local climate
Unthank Farmhouse and Barns Adjoining sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% 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.
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