Lowfields Cottage and Barn is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. Cottage, barn.
Lowfields Cottage and Barn
- WRENN ID
- dark-corridor-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1958
- Type
- Cottage, barn
- Address
- Lowfields Cottage and Barn, Burton in Lonsdale
- OS grid reference
- SD 639 723
- Coordinates
- 54.14549, -2.55321
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lowfields Cottage and barn, dated 1739, are located in Burton in Lonsdale. The cottage is constructed of rendered rubble with stone dressings and features a stone slate roof. The south front has two storeys and two bays. There is a blocked entrance on the left side, and to the right, a 5-light flat-faced mullioned window with 20th-century casements and fixed lights. On the upper floor, there are two 2-light flat-faced mullioned windows with casements, positioned between a datestone that has a scrolled shield in bas relief inscribed with "T I.I". The right-hand ridge stack is present. At the rear, there is a right-hand entrance shared with Lowfields Park, featuring square blocks and a plank door.
Adjoining the cottage is a barn from the 18th century, built of slobbered rubble with stone dressings and a slate roof. The barn has two bays, with a stable entrance on the left and a waggon entrance on the right that has a plain segmental head and keystone. On the upper floor of the barn, there is a keyed pitching eye to the left and a square window to the right, along with a left-hand shaped kneeler.
Local climate
Lowfields Cottage and Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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