Home Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1967. A C19 Farmhouse.

Home Farmhouse

WRENN ID
night-quoin-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 December 1967
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Home Farmhouse, Greystoke
OS grid reference
NY 433 311
Coordinates
54.67213, -2.8797
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Home Farmhouse, formerly known as Greystoke Castle Farmhouse, is a farmhouse that is part of the planned Home farm for Greystoke Castle. It is dated and inscribed over the doorway with "HH 1837" (Henry Howard). The building is constructed from mixed sandstone rubble with flush quoins and features a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers. It has a banded ashlar gable chimney stack. The farmhouse is two storeys high and consists of three bays. It has sash windows set in raised stone surrounds. The left return wall includes a rusticated ashlar gabled porch, with a doorway that has a keyed lintel.

Local climate

Home 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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