Virginia House and Adjoining Byre/Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. House. 2 related planning applications.
Virginia House and Adjoining Byre/Barn
- WRENN ID
- inner-corner-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Virginia House and Adjoining Byre/Barn, CA10 3BU
- OS grid reference
- NY 621 209
- Coordinates
- 54.58255, -2.58677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Virginia House and the adjoining byre/barn is a house dating from the late 17th century, with later additions and alterations. It is built from coursed, squared sandstone blocks and features a graduated slate roof with copings and kneelers, along with stone end chimneys. The two-storey, three-bay front has a 19th-century gabled wooden porch with decorated barge-boards and a finial. To the left of the door is a 19th-century three-light mullioned window, while to the right is an original four-light mullioned window. The first floor has a single 19th-century sash window and two small Yorkshire sashes, all with glazing bars.
Inside, the ground floor to the north has a bracketed fireplace with a beef-box at the first-floor level. The cross-passage entrance has been converted into a cupboard, but the stone heck with a wooden seat remains. A 17th-century bed-cupboard is present, featuring small turned balusters for ventilation holes. The ground floor to the south includes late 18th-century to early 19th-century panelling, with access doors to the bed cupboard and cupboards on either side of the fireplace. Throughout the building, there are surviving 17th-century and 18th-century panelled doors.
A late 19th-century extension made of slobbered rubble is located at the rear. The barn, which adjoins to the north, is constructed from coursed, squared rubble and has a corrugated asbestos roof. A rainwater head at the junction with the house is dated 1815. The front openings have been altered in the 20th century, and there is a ramp entrance at the rear. The roof has been raised.
Local climate
Virginia House and Adjoining Byre/Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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 — 2 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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