Massive flames and smoke filled the sky as fire crews battled a blaze at a barn.
Eye witnesses reported smoke billowing out of the building near the A69, north of Brampton.
Blazing flames tore through the outbuilding of a farm, destroying its roof.
Firefighters were called at about 6.30pm yesterday to a barn fire near Low Row.
Eyewitnesses told the they saw "black smoke coming from the flames" as they drove nearby.
The fire started in what firefighters suspect was a boiler room adjacent to a farmhouse.
Firefighters from retained stations in Brampton and Haltwhistle were first to the scene.
They extinguished the fire using three hose reels.
Carlisle east station firefighters were also called out.
A spokesman from the station said: "It was a detached boiler house with a wood burning stove type boiler which cause [the fire].
"We're not sure what went wrong with it."
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