Lane Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1989. Farmhouse.
Lane Head Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- young-cloister-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lane Head Farmhouse, Beck Side, Lower Allithwaite
- OS grid reference
- SD 370 806
- Coordinates
- 54.21786, -2.96683
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lane Head Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone and has a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and features four bays. The windows are sashed and have vertical glazing bars, with a French window located in the first bay of the ground floor. The entrance is adorned with a flat bracketed canopy and a six-fielded-panel door. There are gable-end stacks, with the right stack projecting and an additional stack located at the rear of the ridge. The right side of the building has a large lean-to outshut that includes an entrance and a window on the front. At the rear, there is a gabled wing. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lane Head Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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