Well Knowe House and Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House, farmhouse.
Well Knowe House and Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- solitary-niche-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- House, farmhouse
- Address
- Well Knowe House and Farmhouse, Lower Allithwaite
- OS grid reference
- SD 372 792
- Coordinates
- 54.205, -2.96325
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well Knowe House and Farmhouse is a pair of houses dated 1650, with later alterations and additions. The building is constructed of roughcast stone and has a slate roof. It is two storeys high and consists of four bays, with the first bay being part of the farmhouse. The windows are sashed with glazing bars, and the ground floor features tripartite sashes in the second and fourth bays. The entrance in the third bay has a flat bracketed canopy and a six-fielded-panel door, with the lintel displaying two blind round arches. There are gable-end stacks, with the right stack projecting and having set offs. At the rear, there is an outshut under a catslide roof and a three-bay gabled wing that forms part of the farmhouse. The left return includes a French window, an entrance in a gabled porch, and some small-paned pivoted casements.
Local climate
Well Knowe House and Farmhouse 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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