Barn Adjoining North End of the Rockery is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. A C19 Barn.
Barn Adjoining North End of the Rockery
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-glass-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- NY 561 155
- Coordinates
- 54.53369, -2.67967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-19th century bank barn located at the north end of The Rockery in Shap. The barn is constructed from coursed, squared rubble with quoins and features a graduated slate roof with a stone ridge. It has three plank byre doors, with a winnowing door above the central one, and a central wagon entrance that includes a cheeked porch at the rear. There is also an owl hole in the north gable. The barn is included for its group value.
Local climate
Barn Adjoining North End of the Rockery sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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