Bow Windows Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. Farmhouse.

Bow Windows Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuildings

WRENN ID
vacant-thatch-rook
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
Address
Bow Windows Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuildings, Rampside
OS grid reference
SD 239 662
Coordinates
54.08632, -3.16353
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bow Windows Farmhouse and attached farm buildings date back to 1654, with extensions made in the 18th century and alterations in the 19th century. The farmhouse features stucco and roughcast over stone, while the farm buildings are made of exposed rubble, some of which is whitewashed, all topped with graduated slate roofs.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with a three-by-two window arrangement on the first floor and a three-quarter outshut at the rear. The farm buildings are arranged in a U-shape, with a two-storey barn and cow house consisting of eight bays across the north end of the yard. One-storey wings extend to the south, with the western wing connecting to the house.

The entrance front of the house, which faces the road, has been remodeled, featuring a doorway on the left with a chamfered, quoined surround. Above this, there is a two-light chamfered mullion window that has a reused lintel inscribed with the date '1654'. The right side of the house has raised quoins and a broad, two-storey, canted bay window with a 1:2:1 light arrangement, projecting sills, and ashlar surrounds to 20th-century casements topped by a hipped roof. There is a brick corner stack to the right of the coped gable, and the left corner has a parapet raised above the outshut roofline. The right return of the house features three tall casements on each floor, with an additional section on the right that includes two casements and a door beneath two six-pane sashes. The right side has shaped kneelers and gable copings, along with two ridge stacks.

The barn and cow house have a catslide roof projection over a central pigeon loft, with a recess to the left that includes doors to each floor and a cow house door framed in wood with an arch. To the right of the pigeon loft, the roof extends to form a canopy over a wagon passageway. The one-storey link to the house has two doors, a casement, and garage doors beneath a monoclinal roof. The opposite wing features three boarded doors and two windows set beneath the eaves. The interior of the house has not been inspected, but the barn includes principal-rafter trusses.

Local climate

Bow Windows Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuildings 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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