Barn to East of Park House Farmhouse with Attached Shippons to North and East is a Grade II* listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1952. Barn.
Barn to East of Park House Farmhouse with Attached Shippons to North and East
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-hammer-fen
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1952
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SD 495 826
- Coordinates
- 54.23699, -2.77591
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 16th-century threshing barn located to the east of Park House Farmhouse, with attached shippons to the north and east. The barn has been repurposed and now serves as a barn, with a blocked-up shippon that was originally accessed from the south gable. A shippon with a granary above was added to the north, likely in the 18th century. Additionally, a horse gin house, which features a curved wall, was added to the east across the wagon door during the 19th century and is now used as a shippon.
The structure is built from stone rubble, with protruding through stones visible on the shippon. It has a 4-foot plinth on the south gable end and a graduated greenslate roof with a stone ridge. The barn consists of eight bays, while the shippon has three bays. There is a later doorway with 20th-century doors in the northeast corner of the barn, and three windows, including one with a massive stone lintel and a door in the old horse gin house.
The barn's roof features massive upper cruck trusses that are pegged at the apex, with a ridge piece and ties at two levels, along with curved braces and two levels of trenched purlins with curved wind braces. The shippon has a king post roof with principals that are halved and pegged at the apex, along with three levels of trenched purlins and curved wind braces. There are 20th-century shippons added to the west, which are not of interest.
Local climate
Barn to East of Park House Farmhouse with Attached Shippons to North and East sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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