Canon Winder Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1953. A C16 Farmhouse.

Canon Winder Hall

WRENN ID
heavy-hearth-cream
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 May 1953
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Canon Winder Hall, Winder Lane, Lower Holker
OS grid reference
SD 351 747
Coordinates
54.16416, -2.99477
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Canon Winder Hall is a farmhouse that likely dates from the 16th century, with alterations and additions made in the early 17th century and an 18th-century entrance. The building is constructed of roughcast stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. It has two storeys and eight bays, with an outbuilding to the south. The gable ends are topped with ball finials.

The west facade includes a projecting gabled second bay, while the end two bays are recessed and lower. There is a drip course above the ground floor of the third to sixth bays, and a gabled porch is located at the sixth bay. The ground floor features 4-light double-chamfered-mullioned windows with transoms in the third, fourth, and sixth bays, with king mullions in the third and fourth bays. The first bay has a 19th-century wooden cross-mullion window, and the second bay has double-chamfered stair lights on the front and right return. The first floor has 4:4:2:4-light double-chamfered-mullioned windows in the third to sixth bays, while the porch contains a 2-light window. The eighth bay has a ground floor window, and the seventh and eighth bays have 2-light recessed flat-mullioned windows.

The entrance, located between the third and fourth bays, features an eared architrave, a pulvinated frieze, a cornice, and a flat canopy, along with a six-fielded panel door. There is a blocked entrance in the fifth bay with recessed Tudor heads and a plain entrance on the porch return. The building has two cross-axial stacks with diagonal shafts.

At the north end, there is a two-storey canted bay window with a hipped stone roof, featuring 1:2:1-light mullioned windows with dripstones, and an attic 2-light window with a dripstone. The east elevation has a large projecting lateral stack with set-offs and a round shaft at the south end. This side has few windows; the ground floor includes a sashed window and a blocked 5-light ogee-mullioned and transomed window with a dripstone, while the first floor has three windows, two of which are wooden cross-mullioned.

The outbuilding has two entrances, a small-paned window, and a small upper light on the west side, with additional entrances on the east. The interior has not been inspected but is reported to contain two spiral staircases and two panelled rooms, with the panels featuring three moulded sides and cock's-head hinges.

Local climate

Canon Winder Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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