Hardrigg Hall Farmhouse, with Tower, Barn and Stables Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1967. Farmhouse, tower.
Hardrigg Hall Farmhouse, with Tower, Barn and Stables Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- unlit-bracket-crag
- 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
- Farmhouse, tower
- OS grid reference
- NY 424 361
- Coordinates
- 54.71735, -2.89431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hardrigg Hall Farmhouse is a 19th-century farmhouse with an adjoining 14th-century fortified tower, barn, and stables. The tower, constructed for the Southaik family, features very thick walls made of large blocks of pink and grey sandstone and is currently roofless. The farmhouse has similar sandstone rubble walls, some of which incorporate reused stone from the tower, and is topped with a graduated greenslate roof and banded sandstone chimney stacks. The barn and stables share the same wall and roof construction.
The farmhouse is two stories high and has three bays, with the former three-story tower on the left and a three-bay barn on the right. There is also a rear right-angled extension that combines domestic and stable/barn functions, creating an overall L-shape. The tower has partial remains of three walls, with a staircase loop and a small upper-floor medieval window visible on the right return wall. The farmhouse features a central 20th-century door set in a 19th-century gabled stone porch, along with sash windows in raised stone surrounds. The barn has a central partly-blocked doorway and a loft doorway, flanked by ground-floor casement windows. The extension includes sash and casement windows in raised stone surrounds, with external stone steps leading to the loft doorway on the left return wall.
Inside the tower, the exposed interior reveals the remains of a vaulted basement, an angle newel staircase, and a shouldered-arched doorway in the basement. There is also a round-arched doorway that is now blocked by the farmhouse's gable wall, along with two additional round-arched doorways above. The tower contains medieval fireplaces on two levels and remains of three splayed windows in each wall, although it is now a stable ruin.
Local climate
Hardrigg Hall Farmhouse, with Tower, Barn and Stables Adjoining sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% 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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