Roe Head and Barns Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. Farmhouse, barn. 3 related planning applications.

Roe Head and Barns Adjoining

WRENN ID
roaming-clay-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1986
Type
Farmhouse, barn
Address
Roe Head and Barns Adjoining, CA4 0QH
OS grid reference
NY 400 387
Coordinates
54.74054, -2.93252
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an early 18th-century farmhouse with barns adjoining, altered in the 19th century. The farmhouse is built with painted incised stucco over sandstone rubble walls, featuring V-jointed quoins. It has a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and chimney stacks of banded red sandstone. The barns are of mixed sandstone rubble, with roofs of both greenslate and red sandstone slate. The overall layout forms a U-shape.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with two bays. The central doorway is framed by a bolection architrave and cornice. There are three-light flat-mullioned windows, with those on the left being two-light, set within 19th-century painted stone surrounds. The right-hand barn has 20th-century casement windows, positioned beneath slit vents. The left barn is partly domestic and features chamfered-surround windows from the 18th century in its gable wall. The return wall contains irregular casement windows in 19th-century painted stone surrounds.

The rear of the farmhouse includes an outshut with a small two-light stone-mullioned window, and another similar window where the mullion has been removed. The L-shaped barn has a central double plank door within a segmental arch, and a pent extension to the right. The right-angled extension has plank doors, loft openings, small openings and slit vents.

Local climate

Roe Head and Barns Adjoining sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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