High House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. House.

High House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tattered-pilaster-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 July 1984
Type
House
Address
High House Farmhouse, Helm Lane, Natland
OS grid reference
SD 523 889
Coordinates
54.29382, -2.73396
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

High House Farmhouse is a 17th-century house with later alterations. It features slobbered rubble walls with a plinth and a graduated slate roof topped with a stone ridge. The main house has two end chimney stacks, each with oval shafts, and a rear extension that includes a chimney with a circular shaft. The layout likely started as a two-room plan, with extensions added at a lower level to the south and at right angles to the west. The building is two storeys high and has three 19th-century horizontal sliding windows and one 19th-century sash window on the ground floor. There is a boarded door in the extension on the left and a 20th-century door to the main house. The upper floor has one horizontal sliding window and three casement windows. Inside, there are 17th-century beams and a fire beam, a circular oak staircase with an oak newel and moulded balusters, 17th-century panelling and doors along the landing, and a spice cupboard with the initials TWE and the date 1666.

Local climate

High House 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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