Busk Rigg and Barns Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. Farmhouse, barn. 8 related planning applications.
Busk Rigg and Barns Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- crooked-rampart-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- Address
- Busk Rigg and Barns Adjoining, CA10 1LA
- OS grid reference
- NY 609 421
- Coordinates
- 54.77251, -2.60842
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A mid-18th century farmhouse with adjoining barns, situated near Kirkoswald. The farmhouse is built of coursed red sandstone rubble with sandstone slate and graduated green slate roofs, and stone chimney stacks. It is a two-story, three-bay structure. The front of the farmhouse features a plank door within a plain stone surround, with three-light windows to either side, and two-light windows above. These windows have 20th-century casements and flat stone mullions. To the left of the farmhouse is a barn with a large round-arched cart entrance and a smaller entrance to the right; a loft is accessible via external stone steps. The barn to the right also features round-arched cart entrances and external stone steps leading to a loft.
Local climate
Busk Rigg and Barns Adjoining sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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