Howbarrow Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1989. Farmhouse.

Howbarrow Farmhouse

WRENN ID
deep-moulding-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 February 1989
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Howbarrow Farmhouse, Lower Allithwaite
OS grid reference
SD 361 790
Coordinates
54.20298, -2.98075
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Howbarrow Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse located in Lower Allithwaite. It is constructed of roughcast stone rubble, although the roughcast is falling off as of 1987, and features a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The windows are sashed with single glazing bars, with the window in the first bay of the ground floor featuring a paired sash and a slated lintel. The third bay has blocked segmental-headed windows. The entrance is marked by a flat bracketed canopy above a six-panel door. There are gable-end stacks, and a single-storey range extends to the left return. At the rear, there is a gabled wing with a corbelled gable-end stack that has a round shaft. The first bay includes a three-light single-chamfered-mullioned window. Inside, the farmhouse has principal rafters with curved bases and may contain hidden spice cupboards with doors.

Local climate

Howbarrow Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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