Hole Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1967. House. 1 related planning application.

Hole Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tired-trefoil-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 December 1967
Type
House
Address
Hole Farmhouse, Ousby, CA10 1QA
OS grid reference
NY 617 345
Coordinates
54.70408, -2.59467
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hole Farmhouse is a house dated 1743 with later additions. It is built of ashlar stone with rusticated quoins on a chamfered plinth. The building features a lintel band above the ground floor windows and a band with cavetto moulding at the eaves. The roof is graduated slate with an original outshut at the rear, complemented by stone copings, kneelers, and end chimneys.

The front of the house is symmetrical, two stories high, and has five bays. It includes a panelled door set within a segmentally pedimented doorcase, which bears the inscription "John Hall 1743." There are two windows on either side of the door and five above, all framed in architraves. Most of the windows are sashes with glazing bars, and one original mullioned two-light window remains in the outshut.

To the west, there is a former single-storey wash-house that has a 20th-century casement window inserted into the front. To the east, a former two-storey 19th-century coach house has been converted into a garage. The occupant has indicated that original interior fittings are still present.

Local climate

Hole Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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