Leavey Holme is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. A C18 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Leavey Holme
- WRENN ID
- strange-tracery-holly
- 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
- Leavey Holme, Castle Sowerby, CA7 8HS
- OS grid reference
- NY 368 373
- Coordinates
- 54.72745, -2.98131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leavey Holme is a farmhouse dated 1739, as inscribed above the entrance. It features painted roughcast walls and a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers. The gable end chimney stacks were rebuilt in the 20th century. The building is two storeys high and has four bays. The central entrance has a 20th-century door set within a pilastered surround, topped with a blind round arch and a false keystone. The windows include sash and casement types, all framed in painted stone surrounds. At the rear, there is a late 18th-century outshut that includes a 20th-century side porch. The adjoining barns are not of interest. Additionally, the will of Hugh Simpson of Levyholme, dated 1729, is held in the Jackson Collection at Carlisle Library.
Local climate
Leavey Holme sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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- 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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