South End Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. Farmhouse, farm buildings.

South End Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings

WRENN ID
fallow-corner-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 May 1976
Type
Farmhouse, farm buildings
Address
South End Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings, Hare Lane
OS grid reference
SD 204 632
Coordinates
54.05922, -3.21733
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

South End Farmhouse and attached farm buildings date largely to the 18th century, though the farmhouse has earlier origins, evidenced by a date plaque of 1764. The buildings are constructed of cement-rendered, cobble rubble, and have Welsh slate and graduated slate roofs, with corrugated asbestos on some farm buildings.

The farmhouse is two storeys with three windows to the first floor, with a barn extending at a right angle to the rear left, and a longer two-storey farm building completing a U-shaped arrangement. A part-glazed door to the right of centre is set within an ashlar architrave with cornice on consoles, flanked by tall 20th-century casement windows on each floor. The left-hand side of the farmhouse has two segmentally-arched ground-floor windows, one of which possibly replaces a former doorway, with a 20th-century casement above. Stone gutter brackets are present, along with an end stack on the right and two ridge stacks. The left end of the roof is hipped where it meets the barn to the rear. Rear outshuts are under a catslide roof.

The barn has boarded double doors under a wooden lintel and a slated canopy. A lean-to is attached to the right, featuring pigeon holes in the main wall, and a stone stair rises against the side of the attached farm building. The altered farm building across the north side of the yard has large ground-floor openings, a row of projecting throughs, and a segmentally-arched taking-in door to the first floor on the right.

The interior reveals evidence of an early build, enlarged in 1746, with a principal stack and winder stair grouped together, suggesting an original longhouse configuration. A staircase features stick pilasters and a ramped handrail, and the doors are of 2, 4, and 6-panel design. The roof structure is supported by 18th-century king post struts. The barn contains early 18th-century principal-rafter trusses. The farmbuilding across the north side of the yard is included for group value only, and a farmbuilding projecting from the front left of the house is considered of no special interest.

Local climate

South End Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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