Guides Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1975. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Guides Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
- WRENN ID
- scarred-oriel-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1975
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Guides Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings, Cart Lane, Grange-Over-Sands, LA11 7AF
- OS grid reference
- SD 400 764
- Coordinates
- 54.18048, -2.91961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Guides Farmhouse and the attached farm buildings date from the mid or late 17th century, with additions and alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The farmhouse is finished in painted roughcast, while the barn features exposed limestone rubble, and there is a single-storey range made of painted rubble and brick. The roofs are covered with slate.
The complex consists of a house to the north and a taller bank barn to the south, which has its main upper doorway on the west side. There is also a single-storey range that projects towards the east from the junction of the house and barn. The house has a three-cell plan and stands two storeys plus an attic high. The windows have plain reveals and projecting sills, with most being sash windows. On the ground floor, there are three windows, including a middle window with paired sashes, and five windows on the first floor. The attic features one casement window situated between two blind recesses. To the right of the first window is a door with plain reveals, and to the left of the right-hand window is a second door with plain reveals that has a flat stone hood supported by brackets. There are chimneys on the right-hand gable and to the left of the second doorway.
The north wall of the single-storey range has two doorways and a chimney on the ridge. The barn includes openings with plain reveals and rough stone arches. At the lower level, there are two shippon doorways, a central cart store doorway, and a small window on the left. The upper level features a central threshing door.
Inside, the central room on the ground floor has two main ceiling beams with sunken quadrant mouldings; the right-hand beam originally served as a firehood bressumer. This room is separated from the southern room by a stone partition wall. The rear staircase is reportedly made of stone but is now covered with timber. The house serves as the residence of the official guide for the oversands route.
Local climate
Guides Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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