The Elephant is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. Farmhouse.
The Elephant
- WRENN ID
- slow-flue-tide
- 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
- Address
- The Elephant, Hesket
- OS grid reference
- NY 453 424
- Coordinates
- 54.77401, -2.85093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Elephant is a farmhouse built in the late 18th century or early 19th century. It features painted rendered walls and a graduated greenslate roof with banded red sandstone chimney stacks. The structure is two storeys high and has three bays, with lower flanking set-back wings. The main entrance has a panelled door set in a stone surround beneath a pediment. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are framed in painted stone surrounds. The wings also have similar windows and a door on the right. The adjoining farm buildings are not of interest.
Local climate
The Elephant sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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