Number 53 with Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House, outbuilding.
Number 53 with Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- noble-parapet-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- House, outbuilding
- Address
- Number 53 with Outbuilding, Main Street, Lower Holker
- OS grid reference
- SD 364 758
- Coordinates
- 54.17452, -2.97557
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 53 with outbuilding is a house and outbuilding, likely built in the late 17th century or early 18th century. The structure is made of roughcast stone and has a slate roof, while the outbuilding features a corrugated asbestos roof. The house is two storeys high and has two bays, with the first bay having a gabled roof. The outbuilding projects to the right.
On the ground floor, there are windows with 20th-century small-paned casements that have replaced the original sashes. The second bay features a bay window with a hipped roof. The first floor has sashed windows with single glazing bars and horns. The entrance includes a 20th-century panelled door. A corbelled gable-end stack has a rounded shaft. At the rear, there is a gabled wing with a projecting gable-end stack that has set offs and a squat round shaft, along with casement windows. The outbuilding has large entrances at both the front and rear.
Local climate
Number 53 with Outbuilding 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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