Spitals Farmhouse with Adjoining Stables, Byre, and Gin Gang is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1984. Farmhouse.
Spitals Farmhouse with Adjoining Stables, Byre, and Gin Gang
- WRENN ID
- iron-lantern-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NY 621 263
- Coordinates
- 54.63046, -2.58729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spitals Farmhouse, along with its adjoining stables, byre, and gin gang, is a farmhouse group located on the south side of a courtyard, dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century. The buildings are constructed from various types of squared, coursed, or snecked rubble. The original house, situated in the center, features an incised stucco front with stucco quoins. An extension was added to the east in the early 19th century, while the stable is located to the west. All structures are topped with a hipped Welsh slate roof that includes outshuts at the rear and has mid chimneys.
The original house is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-bay front, which includes a central part-glazed door and two sash windows on each floor. The house extension also features two sash windows on each floor. The stable has a door at the rear, flanked by windows, with access to a hay loft above. All windows throughout the buildings have glazing bars. The single-storey byre, which is adjacent to the east end, has a graduated slate roof and features a semicircular termination of the early 19th-century gin gang at the front.
Local climate
Spitals Farmhouse with Adjoining Stables, Byre, and Gin Gang sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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