Low Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. Farmhouse.
Low Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gilded-foundation-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Low Farmhouse, Aldingham
- OS grid reference
- SD 288 723
- Coordinates
- 54.14188, -3.09103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of rendered rubble sitting on a boulder plinth and features a Welsh slate roof. The roof has three diagonally-set stacks at the mid-chimney and a tapered cylindrical stack at the end chimney, all made of slobbered rubble. The building is two storeys high and has four bays, with a stair projection and an outshut at the rear.
The entrance has a plank inner door set in a gabled porch that includes side benches. To the right of the porch, there is a single window, while to the left, there are two windows, and above, there are three more, all of which are casements with glazing bars. The roof also includes three roof lights, and there are some two-light chamfered mullioned windows at the rear.
Inside, the sitting room features some original chamfered beams supported by corbels, along with a 17th-century bracketed fireplace that has a corniced lintel and a bressumer beam. The kitchen retains original stop-chamfered beams and joists, and it includes the remains of a beehive bread oven within the inglenook fireplace.
Local climate
Low Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,650 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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