Birk Hag Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1951. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Birk Hag Farmhouse

WRENN ID
distant-groin-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 April 1951
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Birk Hag Farmhouse, Sedbergh Road, Kendal, LA9 7PX
OS grid reference
SD 531 916
Coordinates
54.31863, -2.72216
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Birk Hag Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from 1666, as indicated by a date found on a spice cupboard, along with the initials I. & C.E. The building has seen later additions and alterations. It is constructed of wet-dashed rubble and features graduated slate roofs, with gabled dormers on the lower wing and rendered, tapered, cylindrical end chimneys. The farmhouse has two storeys and an L-shaped plan.

On the west elevation, the low wing has a plank door situated between two casement windows on the left, with a recessed 19th-century plank door in a porch on the right. The west return of the two-storey block, which dates back to 1666, has a casement window on the ground floor and another in the attic. An original wood-studded plank door on the east return leads up a spiral staircase to the first floor and attic. Inside, the farmhouse retains original doors and chamfered beams, along with an inglenook fireplace that features a chamfered fire-beam.

Local climate

Birk Hag Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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