Elliscale Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. Farmhouse.

Elliscale Farmhouse

WRENN ID
broken-baluster-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 May 1976
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Elliscale Farmhouse, Askam Road, Dalton Town with Newton
OS grid reference
SD 225 747
Coordinates
54.1625, -3.18763
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Elliscale Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that was altered in the early 19th century. It features scored stucco over stone and a graduated slate roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, with three windows on the first floor. There is a wing at the rear right and a three-storey stair projection, along with a lean-to against the right return. The central doorway is covered by a conservatory and has a five-panel, part-glazed door set in an ashlar surround with a cornice supported by consoles. The flanking windows and those on the first floor have four-pane sashes with projecting stone sills and raised surrounds. The roof is steeply pitched with ashlar gable copings on the left. A large external stack is located to the right, featuring tabling and a rounded shaft, with a similar stack on the left.

Inside, there is a 19th-century wooden spiral staircase with a tapered octagonal newel, and a steep stone staircase leads into the rear wing. The attic has oak floorboards and three principal-rafter trusses with curved collars; one truss is infilled with studwork, while another has an iron grinder attached, with the date 1819 marked in slate torching.

Local climate

Elliscale Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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