Spital Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1983. Farmhouse.
Spital Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- bitter-moulding-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Spital Farmhouse, Kendal Road, Kirkby Lonsdale
- OS grid reference
- SD 577 799
- Coordinates
- 54.21367, -2.64896
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spital Farmhouse is an early 19th-century building, likely constructed before 1820. It is two storeys high and features a plastered exterior with a slate hipped roof. The windows have sills and plain reveals, and throughout the building, there are Gothic casements. Adjacent to the farmhouse is a large barn from the 17th or 18th century, which is located in the parish of Hutton Roof.
Local climate
Spital Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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