Scarcroft Farmhouse with Adjoining Byres and Barn to North is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Scarcroft Farmhouse with Adjoining Byres and Barn to North

WRENN ID
gaunt-floor-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 April 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Scarcroft Farmhouse with Adjoining Byres and Barn to North, CA10 3BU
OS grid reference
NY 619 214
Coordinates
54.58653, -2.5904
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Scarcroft Farmhouse, dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, features later additions. It is constructed from coursed, squared pink sandstone blocks and has a graduated slate roof with copings on the oldest part of the house. The farmhouse has a two-storey front that is four bays wide, with the two-bay south end showcasing one four-light window on the ground floor to the right and three three-light windows, all in original chamfered stone surrounds but with later flat replacement mullions. A new window opening was created at the rear in 1983. A panelled door in the two-bay extension interrupts a blocked late 17th-century two-light mullioned window, while single windows on the first floor and to the right of the door are similar in style. The 19th-century symmetrical three-bay rear extension includes a central stair window with an interlaced semicircular head and two sashes on each floor. All windows are either fixed or sash types with glazing bars, and there is a hipped porch at the rear door.

Inside, the passage features a late 16th-century to early 17th-century wooden partition on the north side. The south end room has an original four-centred fireplace arch, while the middle room contains a large bracketed fireplace with an ogee head to the infill and a cast-iron range. A heck screen and a three-storey court cupboard dated 1672 are also present in this room, along with some early panelled doors. To the north, there is a range of byres and a ramp barn made of coursed, squared rubble, both covered by graduated slate roofs. The barn has a plank cross-passage door with wooden studs, a hay loft above, and two doors at ground level in the front, along with a ramp entrance at the rear.

Local climate

Scarcroft Farmhouse with Adjoining Byres and Barn to North sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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