Arkles' Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. A C18 Farmhouse.
Arkles' Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dim-sentry-tallow
- 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
- Arkles' Farmhouse, Castle Sowerby
- OS grid reference
- NY 392 358
- Coordinates
- 54.71431, -2.94429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Arkles' Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse constructed of dressed pink sandstone, featuring V-jointed quoins, a string course, and an eaves cornice on a chamfered plinth. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and has a banded stone ridge chimney stack, along with a cement rendered gable chimney stack on the left side. The building is two storeys high and consists of four bays, with a two-bay extension on the left under a common roof. The house has sash windows set in raised stone surrounds, while the right return wall includes a 20th-century French window. The extension features a doorway closest to the house, which has a 20th-century panelled door in a shouldered architrave that may be reused. The lintel above this door is initialled "N" and has ropework beneath an Arkles' coat-of-arms dated 1478-1958. The sash windows in the extension have raised cement surrounds that match the rest of the house. The adjoining barns are not of interest.
Local climate
Arkles' Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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