Mount Pleasant Farmhouse, Cottage and Attached Cart Shed is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. Farmhouse, cottage, attached cart shed.

Mount Pleasant Farmhouse, Cottage and Attached Cart Shed

WRENN ID
late-terrace-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 February 1968
Type
Farmhouse, cottage, attached cart shed
Address
Mount Pleasant Farmhouse, Cottage and Attached Cart Shed, Kirkby Thore
OS grid reference
NY 641 257
Coordinates
54.62599, -2.55689
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mount Pleasant Farmhouse, Cottage and Attached Cart Shed is a building dated 1788, with 19th-century additions. It is constructed from coursed, squared rubble and features a graduated slate roof with stone copings, kneelers, and corniced end chimneys. The symmetrical, two-storey, three-bay front has a glazed central door in a chamfered surround, with a panel above that is initialled and dated T.C. & H.C., 1788. There are two three-light mullioned windows in stone surrounds on each floor, while the first floor has a central two-light window from the 20th century. A sash window without glazing bars is located on the first floor of the west wall.

At the west end, there is a late 19th-century cottage extension that is set back. This extension is also made of coursed, squared rubble with quoins and has a Welsh slate roof. It is two storeys high with two bays, featuring a 20th-century glazed door to the right and a single sash window on each floor, with the ground floor window being larger.

An early 19th-century wagon-shed is attached at the east end and is also set back. It has 20th-century brick infill with a part-glazed door where the wagon opening used to be, and it has a graduated slate roof. This structure is single storey.

Local climate

Mount Pleasant Farmhouse, Cottage and Attached Cart Shed sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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