How Gill is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. Farmhouse.
How Gill
- WRENN ID
- small-copper-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- How Gill, Castle Sowerby
- OS grid reference
- NY 360 402
- Coordinates
- 54.75342, -2.99505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
How Gill is a farmhouse dated 1808, located in Castle Sowerby. It features painted roughcast walls with painted V-jointed quoins, and is topped with a graduated greenslate roof that has coped gables and kneelers. The building includes red sandstone ashlar ridge chimney stacks. There is an extension made of mixed pink and calciferous sandstone rubble walls, also under a graduated greenslate roof. The farmhouse is two storeys high with three bays, and has a lower two-storey, single-bay extension on the left. The central entrance has a 20th-century door and fanlight set in a pilastered surround. The windows are sash style with glazing bars in stone surrounds, and the extension also features sash windows in stone surrounds. At the rear, there is a top-glazed panelled door in a painted stone surround. The barns associated with the property are not of interest.
Local climate
How Gill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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