Farmhouse Opposite Keld Farm with Attached Hay Loft is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. House.
Farmhouse Opposite Keld Farm with Attached Hay Loft
- WRENN ID
- white-steel-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NY 553 144
- Coordinates
- 54.52325, -2.69179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse dated 1840, featuring the initials E.S. in the porch pediment. It has undergone later additions and alterations. The building is constructed from lime-washed rubble with quoins and has graduated slate roofs with stone ridges. It is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-bay layout. The central door is located in a pedimented porch with moulded jambs, and there are 16-pane sash windows in stone surrounds on either side of the door on both floors. The house has rendered end chimneys. At the west end, there is a single-bay hay loft extension, with an entrance accessed by steps at the rear.
Local climate
Farmhouse Opposite Keld Farm with Attached Hay Loft sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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