High House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1962. Farmhouse.
High House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- waning-rotunda-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1962
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- High House Farmhouse, B6257, Firbank
- OS grid reference
- SD 612 959
- Coordinates
- 54.35773, -2.5972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High House Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse with a spice cupboard dated 1727 and a later addition. It is built of narrow coursed rubble with slobbered mortar and has a slate roof. The building has two storeys and four bays, with the second bay projecting as a two-storey porch under a gable, while the fourth bay is recessed and lower. The narrow windows feature plastered lintels; the ground floor of the first bay has a plastered mullion and casements, the second bay on the first floor has small-paned fixed glazing with an opening light, the third bay contains a fire window, and the fourth bay has 20th-century windows with casements. The entrance has a segmental arch, and the inner entrance features a wide-boarded studded door with strap hinges. There is a large projecting gable-end stack and a stack at the former gable end. The rear of the farmhouse has large and small lean-to outshuts and a blocked light with a label mould on the first floor. Inside, there are chamfered beams and a heck partition. The spice cupboard has a fielded-panelled door inscribed with "RWM" and a drawer below inscribed with "1707."
Local climate
High House Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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