Hawes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1983. Farmhouse.

Hawes Farmhouse

WRENN ID
lost-sandstone-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 November 1983
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Hawes Farmhouse, Helsington
OS grid reference
SD 507 885
Coordinates
54.28997, -2.75845
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hawes Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 17th century, with later additions and alterations. It features limewashed rubble walls and a graduated slate roof, along with end chimney stacks. The building has two storeys plus attics, with the rear part constructed first. The front section, added in the early 19th century, has a hipped roof. The central entrance has a six-panelled door with an arched head in a chamfered stone surround, which may be reused. On either side of the door are two sash windows with slate drip moulds, and there are two additional sash windows above, which have vertical bars. The rear of the house includes a full-height staircase projection with late 19th-century sash windows on each half landing. Inside, there is a late 17th-century staircase featuring turned balusters and square newels topped with balls. Records indicate the property at Hawes (or Howes) has existed since the 13th century.

Local climate

Hawes Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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