Southwaite Park and Former Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1967. House, barn. 1 related planning application.
Southwaite Park and Former Barn
- WRENN ID
- fallow-zinc-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 December 1967
- Type
- House, barn
- Address
- Southwaite Park and Former Barn, Hesket, CA4 0LN
- OS grid reference
- NY 446 450
- Coordinates
- 54.79718, -2.86255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house and former barn, largely dating from 1704, with later 18th-century alterations and a 20th-century extension. The house has painted roughcast walls, with an eaves cornice, V-jointed quoins on a chamfered plinth. The roof is of graduated greenslate, repaired with Welsh slate, with coped gables, kneelers, and dressed red sandstone ridge and gable-end chimney stacks. The barn has walls of mixed sandstone rubble under a graduated sandstone slate roof.
The main house is two storeys and three bays, with a left three-bay extension and a right-angled barn at the rear. A 20th-century door is positioned off-centre, set within an alternate-block surround beneath a keyed lintel. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, with the ground-floor windows being double-hung, all set in painted stone surrounds. The extension features a low recessed bay and a projecting gable, both with double-hung sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds, the recess including 20th-century dormer windows. A rear left porch has a 20th-century door in an alternate-block surround. A right-hand doorway also has an alternate-block surround. An off-centre, round-headed staircase window features radial glazing bars within the arch. The window layout is irregular, with sash windows (some double-hung) all in painted stone surrounds. The former barn has a central plank door in a chamfered stone surround, partially hidden by ivy.
Local climate
Southwaite Park and Former Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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