Barn Adjoining Rear of Walnut House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. A Georgian Barn.
Barn Adjoining Rear of Walnut House
- WRENN ID
- open-truss-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1986
- Type
- Barn
- Period
- Georgian
- OS grid reference
- NY 485 278
- Coordinates
- 54.64338, -2.79906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn dating from the mid to late 18th century, located at the rear of Walnut House. It is constructed from a mix of pink and grey sandstone rubble and features a graduated greenslate roof. The barn is low, with two storeys and two bays. There are two widely spaced plank doors set in chamfered stone surrounds, along with slit vents on two levels. The rear of the barn has a large left segmental cart entrance. An extension on the lower right is not of interest. The barn is listed for its group value with Walnut House.
Local climate
Barn Adjoining Rear of Walnut House 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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