Summerhouse at Lorton Park is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1987. Summerhouse.
Summerhouse at Lorton Park
- WRENN ID
- other-gallery-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1987
- Type
- Summerhouse
- Address
- Summerhouse at Lorton Park, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 159 257
- Coordinates
- 54.62031, -3.30281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The summerhouse at Lorton Park, built around 1830, is a single-storey structure with an octagonal plan. It is constructed of yellow stock brick with a red brick eaves band and features a lead roof topped with a copper finial. Each of the eight faces has a window, and the corners are supported by projecting buttresses. The windows have pointed heads and are clear glazed above a small paned light arrangement of 4 x 3. The door consists of two panels topped by an interlace band and is framed with an architrave surround. The summerhouse has projecting timber eaves and an ogee roof with a ball finial.
Inside, there is a brick floor, fixed benches, and a central table. The roof is made of shaped rafters and close boarding. While the windows appear new, they contain old glass, and it is noted that the roof was removed in the early 1970s.
Local climate
Summerhouse at Lorton Park sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
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