Barrock Gill is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. Farmhouse.
Barrock Gill
- WRENN ID
- shifting-jamb-owl
- 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
- Barrock Gill, Hesket
- OS grid reference
- NY 460 464
- Coordinates
- 54.80981, -2.84131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barrock Gill is a farmhouse dated and inscribed above the entrance with "W. JAMES 1818." It is constructed from mixed calciferous sandstone rubble with flush quoins and features a graduated greenslate roof with ashlar chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The entrance includes a six-panel door set in a stone surround, while the windows are sash style with glazing bars, also in stone surrounds.
Local climate
Barrock Gill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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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