Bassenthwaite Church Room is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1982. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Bassenthwaite Church Room
- WRENN ID
- lesser-entrance-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1982
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Bassenthwaite Church Room, Cumberland, CA12 4QH
- OS grid reference
- NY 227 316
- Coordinates
- 54.67387, -3.199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is an 1805 church room, replacing an earlier chapel, in Bassenthwaite. It is constructed from cobble rubble with flush painted quoins and stepped buttresses. The roof is graduated greenslate with coped gables and a west open bellcote of red sandstone. The building is single-storey and three bays, featuring a west round-headed doorway and round-headed windows with glazing bars set within painted stone surrounds. Inside, the church room has simple timber roof-trusses supported by shaped corbels and a plain panelled dado. An extension dated 1862 is not considered of architectural interest. The building served as a chapel-of-ease for Bassenthwaite Parish until 1878, when a new church was constructed nearby.
Local climate
Bassenthwaite Church Room sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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 — 2 transactions since 2019
- 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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