Newsham Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. Farmhouse.
Newsham Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- patient-courtyard-rowan
- 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
- Newsham Farmhouse, Castle Sowerby
- OS grid reference
- NY 392 352
- Coordinates
- 54.70817, -2.94512
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Newsham Farmhouse is a late 18th-century farmhouse located in Castle Sowerby. It features mixed sandstone rubble walls with flush quoins, topped by a graduated greenslate roof that has gable end chimney stacks made of banded sandstone. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays. There is an off-centre 20th-century boarded door with an overlight, set within a painted alternate-block surround. The farmhouse has double casement windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds, except for a single window located above the door.
Local climate
Newsham 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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