Mount Pleasant Farmhouse and Barn Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1967. Farmhouse, barn.
Mount Pleasant Farmhouse and Barn Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- fading-tin-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 December 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- OS grid reference
- NY 465 316
- Coordinates
- 54.67676, -2.83083
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mount Pleasant Farmhouse and the adjoining barn date back to 1790, as indicated by an inscription above the entrance, with an early 19th-century extension. The farmhouse features roughcast walls, an eaves cornice, and V-jointed quoins set on a chamfered plinth. It has a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers, along with banded sandstone ashlar end chimney stacks, one of which has been partly rebuilt in brick. The extension has similar roughcast walls with flush quoins and a coped gable topped with a shaped finial.
The barn is constructed from a mix of limestone and sandstone rubble, also featuring flush quoins and a graduated greenslate roof. It is two storeys high with three bays, accompanied by a lower two-storey, single-bay extension and a lower left two-bay barn. The centre of the barn has a 20th-century door set in an alternate-block surround beneath a dated keyed lintel. Sash windows flank the entrance, with double windows on either side and one above, all set in raised stone surrounds. The extension includes similar sash windows, with double windows on the ground floor. The barn has an off-centre plank door in a stone surround, and a left segmental archway that is now partly blocked, featuring a casement window. The rear of the barn has a large cart or garage entrance with a brick surround and a left 19th-century pent extension.
Local climate
Mount Pleasant Farmhouse and Barn Adjoining sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% 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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