Lowick Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House. 2 related planning applications.

Lowick Hall

WRENN ID
brooding-rampart-smoke
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1970
Type
House
Address
Lowick Hall, Westmorland and Furness, LA12 8ED
OS grid reference
SD 285 859
Coordinates
54.26427, -3.09791
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lowick Hall is a house that features a south wing dating from the 16th or 17th century, originally serving as a pele tower, one of two such structures. The rest of the house was built in the mid-18th century, with a rainwater head dated 1746, and a porch added in the 19th century. The east elevation consists of two storeys and five bays, highlighted by a three-storey gabled bay to the south, which forms the south wing. This elevation includes a top frieze, cornice, and blacking course, along with a stone rainwater head and downpipe, and decorative bargeboards on the wing. The windows are architraved and sashed with horns; the wing features four-light chamfered wooden-mullioned windows, with a three-light window on the second floor.

The entrance, located in the fourth bay, has an ashlar porch with paired half-glazed doors and side windows, a dentilled cornice, and a parapet. Inside, there is a 12-panel door set in a 18th-century doorcase. The house has three gable-end stacks. The south elevation displays varied fenestration, including some mullioned windows, and features a large cross-axial stack with a rounded shaft. The north elevation has sashed windows with glazing bars on the rear wing, where the first-floor windows are original and have ovolo glazing bars, along with a lateral stack.

The rear of the house has three gabled bays, with the first two projecting. It includes sashed windows with glazing bars, a round-headed stair window flanked by pilasters and an archivolt, and a two-light window with leaded glazing in the third bay. The entrance is located in the second bay, and there are two gable-end stacks along with a return lateral stack.

Inside the south wing, there are stop-chamfered beams, a ground floor fireplace with an inset fireplace and oven, and a priest hole. A doorway with a chamfered frame leads to a spiral stair made of oak baulks. The first floor features two triangular-headed doorways with wide-boarded doors. The main house has doors with six and two fielded panels, and a fireplace adorned with panelled pilasters and a lintel featuring a shell motif. The open-string dog-leg stair has two column and vase balusters on the tread and scrolled tread ends, along with a fielded-panel dado. The first floor includes doorways with eared architraves and a pulvinated frieze with a pediment, fielded panelled partitions with dado and dentilled cornice, and a cupboard with glazed doors, a swan-neck pediment, and the Everard Crest.

Local climate

Lowick Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,600 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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