Ghyll House, Attached Barn, Gin Gang, and Byre is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1984. House, barn, byre.

Ghyll House, Attached Barn, Gin Gang, and Byre

WRENN ID
sleeping-spandrel-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1984
Type
House, barn, byre
Address
Ghyll House, Attached Barn, Gin Gang, and Byre, the Green, Dufton
OS grid reference
NY 689 251
Coordinates
54.62026, -2.4823
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ghyll House, built in the early 18th century, features an incised stucco front with painted quoins, while the rear outshuts are pebble-dashed. The house has a graduated slate roof with brick chimneys at each end. It is a two-storey structure with a three-bay front, which includes a central plank door set within a 20th-century openwork gabled porch and a two-light casement window above. To the right, there is a two-storey canted bay with a mullioned two-light window at the front and single-light returns, while the left side has a mullioned two-light window on each floor. All windows are sashes with glazing bars. The house has been extended by two bays into an adjoining barn on the west end, which features a single casement window on each floor. The outbuildings, constructed of coursed squared rubble, are topped with a continuation of the house's Welsh slate roof, forming a courtyard. Large 20th-century doors have been added to the byre, and the semicircular end of the gin-gang, which projects into the courtyard on the west side, has a 20th-century silo piercing the roof.

Local climate

Ghyll House, Attached Barn, Gin Gang, and Byre sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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