Brackenber Farmhouse and Adjoining Byres is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1984. Farmhouse.
Brackenber Farmhouse and Adjoining Byres
- WRENN ID
- dusted-doorway-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NY 722 194
- Coordinates
- 54.56943, -2.43141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brackenber Farmhouse and the adjoining byres consist of three buildings constructed in 1698, 1742, and 1874. They are made of coursed, squared rubble with quoins and feature graduated slate roofs with stone chimneys at the mid and end points. The west end of the byres has stone coping and kneelers. The original two-storey, two-bay farmhouse shares a roof with the byres. To the right of the farmhouse, there is a part-glazed door with an initialled and dated lintel reading "I.S. E.S. 1698," which may be reused. To the left of the door, there is a sash window in a stone surround, along with two additional sash windows above, all of which were originally mullioned. The byres have two doors and three windows on the ground floor, with a dated inscription in a moulded frame above that reads "John Spedding 1742." There is also a taller two-storey, two-bay house extension at the east end, which has panels inscribed with "J.J.W." and "AD 1874." Each floor of this extension features two sash windows with glazing bars and a continuous hoodmould over the ground floor. A later byre adjoining the east end is not included in this description.
Local climate
Brackenber Farmhouse and Adjoining Byres sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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