Thornship Farmhouse and Byre Adjoining South End is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Farmhouse.
Thornship Farmhouse and Byre Adjoining South End
- WRENN ID
- worn-facade-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NY 556 141
- Coordinates
- 54.52071, -2.6871
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thornship Farmhouse and the adjoining byre at the south end date back to the 1760s, as indicated by a date on the fireplace, though there have been later additions and alterations. The building is constructed of coursed rubble and the house is lime-washed. It features graduated slate roofs with stone ridges. The layout follows a cross-passage plan, with the house extended into a panelled range at the rear.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and consists of seven bays in total. The four-bay house has a plank cross-passage door, with three segment-headed windows on the right side of each floor. The top right-hand window is a casement, while the others are fixed, all featuring glazing bars. There is a blocked opening above the door. The byre has a plank door and a window to the right, with a loft door located above it. The house is topped with corniced, stepped stone end chimneys. A corrugated-iron lean-to shed situated in the angle between the byre and the barn is not of interest.
Local climate
Thornship Farmhouse and Byre Adjoining South End 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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