Millbeck Towers is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Millbeck Towers
- WRENN ID
- open-finial-ash
- 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
- House
- Address
- Millbeck Towers, Underskiddaw, Cumberland, CA12 4PS
- OS grid reference
- NY 256 261
- Coordinates
- 54.62503, -3.15313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Millbeck Towers is a former woollen carding mill that has been converted into a private house. It dates from the late 18th century and underwent extensive alterations in 1903 for John Daniel Banks. The building features cement render and roughcast walls, with Lombard frieze eaves beneath a Welsh slate roof. It has distinctive fish-scale greenslate pavilions topped with weather vanes and rendered chimney stacks. The structure is three storeys high and has three bays, flanked by three-storey angle towers. The entrance includes a top-glazed door, and there are 20th-century casement windows set in cement surrounds beneath pediments. For further historical context, see the Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, volume vii, pages 158-172. A painting of the building prior to its conversion is featured in Molly Lefebure's book, Cumberland Heritage, published in 1970, page 125.
Local climate
Millbeck Towers sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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