Sockbridge Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. Farmhouse.
Sockbridge Hall
- WRENN ID
- nether-railing-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Sockbridge Hall, Sockbridge and Tirril
- OS grid reference
- NY 503 270
- Coordinates
- 54.63601, -2.77057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sockbridge Hall is a farmhouse that likely dates from the mid to late 16th century, with additions from the 17th and 18th centuries. The building is constructed of plastered stone with a slate roof, featuring some exposed ashlar and rubble on the east elevation. The gables are coped, with the south gable displaying a crow-stepped design and roll-moulded coping.
The west elevation is two storeys high and consists of four irregular bays. It features hollow-chamfered-mullioned windows. The first bay on the ground floor has a three-light window with a transom, and there is a continuous label mould over the first two bays. However, the second bay has been altered to include an entrance with an architrave and a half-glazed door, while the third bay has a casement window. On the first floor, the first bay has a three-light transomed window, the second bay has a smaller two-light window, and the third bay has another three-light window. The fourth bay contains a plain entrance.
The gable-end stack has a large base and cornice, while there is an octagonal cross-axial stack on a square base with a brattished cornice, and an end lateral stack with set-offs. The south gable-end features three-light windows, with the first-floor window having a transom and label.
On the east elevation, there is an outshut beneath a catslide roof, with one coped end and a lean-to outshut to the right that has a flat roof projecting. The first bay has a window with three round-headed lights, sunk spandrels, and a label mould. A similar window on the first floor is taller, with Tudor-headed lights that are mostly blocked, along with casement windows. There are two casement windows and three pointed-arch windows in the outshuts, with an entrance to the return of the outshut. A brick lateral stack is also present. The entrance to the first bay is now concealed by the outshut and features a sunk triangular head in moulded reveals.
The north gable end has a two-light single-chamfered-mullioned window and two small lights. Inside, there is a large segmental-arched fireplace, and two doors with chamfered reveals—one has a shoulder to one side, while the other has a corbel above. The staircase features 17th-century balusters, and the first floor has corbels along with 17th-century panelling on three sides, cupboards with cock's head hinges, and a renewed fireplace.
Local climate
Sockbridge Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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