Barn Immediately to Rear of Sowerby Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1993. A C17 Barn.
Barn Immediately to Rear of Sowerby Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- grim-chancel-root
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1993
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn Immediately to Rear of Sowerby Hall Farmhouse, Bank Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 198 724
- Coordinates
- 54.14174, -3.22823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn located immediately behind Sowerby Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building, dating from the late 16th to early 17th century, with later additions. It is constructed of red sandstone rubble and features a graduated slate roof. The barn is tall and single-storey, comprising seven bays, with additions on the east side that flank a central waggon entrance. The west side has a stone buttress to the right of another addition, which encloses a blocked archway opposite the waggon entrance. There are also blocked slit vents and a steeply-pitched roof.
Inside, the barn boasts an exceptionally complete raised-cruck roof structure, consisting of six pairs of crucks with tie beams set on knee braces and collars on arch braces. It has double purlins with curved windbraces, oak rafters, and a diagonally-set ridge. Historical maps indicate that the barn once served Sowerby Hall, which was located to the north-west but was demolished between 1873 and 1895, around the time when the new farmhouse was built adjacent to the barn.
Local climate
Barn Immediately to Rear of Sowerby Hall 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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