Motherby House and Barn/Stables Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. House, barn, stables.
Motherby House and Barn/Stables Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- fading-mortar-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1986
- Type
- House, barn, stables
- OS grid reference
- NY 429 284
- Coordinates
- 54.64816, -2.88528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Motherby House and the adjoining barn/stables date from the early 19th century. The house is built of dressed pink sandstone with V-jointed quoins and features a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers, along with ashlar twin candlestick chimney stacks. The barn and stables are constructed from whitewashed rubble with flush quoins and have a hipped graduated greenslate roof.
The house is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with a lower two-bay extension at the rear and a long lower barn/stables on the left. It has a panelled door with an overlight set in a pilastered surround beneath a cornice. The sash windows, which include glazing bars, are framed by mixed stone surrounds. The front wall of the barn/stables is mostly blank except for a plank door and irregular slit vents. The right return wall and the rear extension wall are slate hung, while the opposite wall of the extension features a door and sash windows with glazing bars in stone surrounds. The rear of the barn/stables includes several plank doors and loft doorways set in stone surrounds. There is an additional barn adjoining the extension, but it is not considered of interest. The building occupies a prominent position when approaching the village from the east.
Local climate
Motherby House and Barn/Stables Adjoining sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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