Former stable range, barn and gin-gang for High Head Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1967. Stable range, barn, gin-gang. 8 related planning applications.
Former stable range, barn and gin-gang for High Head Castle
- WRENN ID
- patient-mullion-brook
- 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
- Stable range, barn, gin-gang
- Address
- Former stable range, barn and gin-gang for High Head Castle, The Archways, the Arches, the Coach House and Courtyard Cottage, Ivegill, Carlisle, Skelton, CA4 0PN
- OS grid reference
- NY 402 433
- Coordinates
- 54.78169, -2.931
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former stable range, barn and gin-gang served High Head Castle, and is now divided into five dwellings. The core of the structure dates to 1747, with alterations made in 1853 and 1854, and further modifications in the 20th century. The front facade is built with dressed red sandstone walls incorporating ashlar dressings and V-jointed quoins, while the rear and side walls are of red sandstone rubble. The roof is hipped and covered with Welsh slate, with lower courses of sandstone slates, and includes sandstone and 20th-century brick chimney stacks.
The front is two storeys high and divided into six bays, forming three-bay houses with a central archway. Stables and a barn extend around a rear courtyard, built against a bank, resulting in three-story sections at the rear. A semicircular gin-gang adjoins the lower level of the barn. The central archway features a rusticated ashlar surround with voussoirs, topped by a round patterned window and a coped gable finished with ball finials. The houses have 20th-century doors set within quoined surrounds under keyed lintels. Sash windows with glazing bars are framed by quoined surrounds and keyed lintels, resting on bracketed sills. The right return wall includes a central segmental archway with quoins, and flanking slit vents at high level, partially blocked to accommodate 20th-century windows. A lower-level, 20th-century panelled door is set in a stone surround. The left return wall has irregular window placement across different levels. The lower section is offset with four doorways and three flat stone-mullioned windows, one having its mullion removed; one doorway is blocked, and a 20th-century doorway has been cut through. Upper floors have small casement windows and a tall loft doorway in 19th-century stone surrounds. Left-side 20th-century windows are framed by cement surrounds. The rear wall has similar doorways and slit vents, partially blocked and accommodating 20th-century windows in cement surrounds. The adjoining gin-gang is off-centre and has had its roof removed.
The inner courtyard contains blocked doorways and two-light flat stone-mullioned windows, many with removed mullions. Various segmental archways are present, one dated 1854. There are also some 20th-century garage doors and windows in cement surrounds. The building is listed for group value with High Head Castle.
Local climate
Former stable range, barn and gin-gang for High Head Castle 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- 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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