Sink Fall Farmhouse with Attached Farm Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. Farmhouse, cottage.
Sink Fall Farmhouse with Attached Farm Buildings
- WRENN ID
- tired-groin-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage
- OS grid reference
- SD 211 735
- Coordinates
- 54.15179, -3.20835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sink Fall Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse and cottage with attached farm buildings, which has been altered in the 19th century. It is constructed of red sandstone, partly roughcast, and features a graduated slate roof that has been partially replaced with corrugated sheets. The building has an elongated L-shape, with a two-storey house and cottage that have a total of three windows on the first floor, arranged in a 2:1 pattern. To the left, there is a six-bay barn under the same roof, along with a later two-storey cow house wing at the front left. Both the farmhouse and barn have two-storey wings at the rear.
The farmhouse has a 20th-century door set within a gabled sandstone porch, with six-pane sash windows on each floor, featuring projecting sills and stone lintels. The cottage to the right has a panelled door and paired four-pane sashes beneath a six-pane sash. The right gable of the farmhouse is topped with ashlar copings and has a 19th-century stone stack, along with two matching ridge stacks. The barn has an altered waggon entrance with a doorway to the right. The front gable of the cow house features a segmentally-arched door beneath three slits, while its right return has three small openings and a loft door flanked by slits.
At the rear of the house, the wing is lit by two-light, square-faced mullioned windows on each floor, with three similar windows on the main range to the left. Inside the farmhouse, there are fielded two-panel pine doors off the landing. The barn has an 18th-century roof supported by principal-rafter trusses with double purlins, while the cow house features a pattern-book king-post truss. The floor framing of the rear wing of the barn suggests it may have been used as a horse gin in the past.
Local climate
Sink Fall Farmhouse with Attached Farm Buildings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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