Palace How is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Palace How
- WRENN ID
- fossil-bastion-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Palace How, Buttermere, Cumberland, CA13 9UX
- OS grid reference
- NY 152 220
- Coordinates
- 54.58621, -3.31296
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Palace How is a farmhouse dating from the mid or late 18th century. It features painted incised stucco and is topped with a graduated greenslate roof that has stucco chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and four bays. There is a plank door located in a gabled stone porch, and another plank door to the left in a painted stone surround. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are set in painted stone surrounds. A lower barn to the left is not considered of interest.
Local climate
Palace How 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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