Well Heads Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Farmhouse.

Well Heads Farmhouse

WRENN ID
gilded-cobble-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 July 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Well Heads Farmhouse, Well Heads Lane, Hincaster
OS grid reference
SD 514 860
Coordinates
54.26788, -2.74671
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Well Heads Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with later alterations. It features a 20th-century roughcast render over rubble, a graduated greenslate roof, and a stone ridge with three chimneys. The building has two storeys plus attics and five irregular windows, which are 20th-century casements. The attic windows have been blocked and rendered over, but stone surrounds are still visible from inside. The central entrance has a studded six-panelled door, with the top three panels glazed, and is sheltered by a later lean-to porch with a slate roof. Inside, the farmhouse has flagged floors and roughly cut chamfered beams in the kitchen and living room. Notably, it has a four-bay roof with a central transverse wall, two angled upper cruck trusses with tie beams at floor level, and two levels of trenched purlins.

Local climate

Well Heads Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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