Old Farm Cottage and The Rear Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1990. House. 4 related planning applications.

Old Farm Cottage and The Rear Cottage

WRENN ID
upper-solder-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 March 1990
Type
House
Address
Old Farm Cottage and The Rear Cottage, 8, Whinfield Farm, Pennington, LA12 0LE
OS grid reference
SD 252 765
Coordinates
54.17939, -3.14711
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The listed buildings consist of two houses, one of which is now an outbuilding. They likely date from the late 17th century and have undergone alterations since. The cottages are constructed of roughcast stone with a slate roof. The main house is two storeys and originally four bays wide, with a fourth bay added later. The second bay of the ground floor features four-light, single-chamfered-mullioned windows with a decorative label mould. The first bay of the ground floor and the first three bays of the first floor have dilapidated sash windows with vertical glazing bars; the fourth bay also has a label mould. Entrances are located in the second and third bays, and the fourth bay has a through passage with a flat arch. A small-paned window looks onto this passage. A single, cross-axial chimney stack remains. The rear of the building incorporates an inhabited wing with casement windows, and one small-paned window. Inside, there are chamfered beams, and one fireplace has a corbelled lintel.

Local climate

Old Farm Cottage and The Rear Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,650 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • 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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