Bull's Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. Farmhouse.
Bull's Head Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- riven-parapet-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bull's Head Farmhouse, Hesket
- OS grid reference
- NY 490 398
- Coordinates
- 54.75073, -2.79384
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bull's Head Farmhouse is a building that was once a public house, dated 1804 above the entrance. It features painted roughcast walls with V-jointed quoins, topped by a graduated greenslate roof with stone chimney stacks. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three bays, along with a lower right-angled extension. The entrance has a 20th-century door set in a quoined surround. The windows are sash style, with double windows on the ground floor, all framed in painted stone surrounds. The extension includes additional plank doors.
Local climate
Bull's Head Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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