Lowther House and Integral Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1983. Farmhouse.
Lowther House and Integral Barn
- WRENN ID
- stark-alcove-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lowther House and Integral Barn, 26, Foster Street, Penrith
- OS grid reference
- NY 510 306
- Coordinates
- 54.6688, -2.7608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lowther House and its integral barn, located at 26 Foster Street, date back to the 18th century. Originally a farmhouse, the building features a roughcast exterior over stone. It has three doors and a round-arched entrance with a keystone leading to the barn. The house includes a double sash window on the ground floor and two double sash windows above, along with arrow slits in the barn.
Local climate
Lowther House and Integral Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% 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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