Rakehead Farmhouse and Adjoining Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Rakehead Farmhouse and Adjoining Cottage

WRENN ID
sharp-bastion-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Rakehead Farmhouse and Adjoining Cottage, CA17 4JR
OS grid reference
NY 778 067
Coordinates
54.4554, -2.34281
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rakehead Farmhouse and the adjoining cottage, originally listed as Rakehead Farmhouse, is a house and granary that has been converted into one dwelling. The building features a lintel dated 1685 above the cross-passage door and has undergone later additions and alterations. It is constructed of coursed rubble with stucco quoins at the south end and has a wet-dashed finish on the south return. The roof is covered with graduated stone flags and includes outshuts at the rear, with kneelers at the north end of the cottage.

The structure is two storeys high. The original five-bay house has a central part-glazed door set in a chamfered surround with a four-centred head. On either side of the door are mullioned three-light windows, with a fire window located to the far left. The first floor features three mullioned two-light windows and two small openings that are now blocked, positioned below the eaves. The cross-passage door on the right has a false four-centred head, with a fire window above it.

The adjoining cottage at the north end, which shares the same roof, is of slightly later construction and was empty in 1983. It has a fire window to the left and two blocked two-light windows on each floor, with the ground floor left window being glazed. The cottage also features a part-glazed door at the centre of the ground floor. The north gable has two openings, one of which has been subdivided to serve as a dovecote. Additionally, a granary was added at the south end, which includes a blocked wagon door and a single 20th-century casement window inserted on each floor.

Local climate

Rakehead Farmhouse and Adjoining Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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