Pow House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. House.
Pow House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-quoin-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pow House, Above Derwent, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 248 237
- Coordinates
- 54.60303, -3.16542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pow House is a house dated 1737, as indicated on the rainwater head. It features painted incised stucco with painted V-jointed quoins and an eaves cornice, all beneath a graduated greenslate roof with roughcast chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has five bays. There is a 20th-century door set in panelled reveals, framed by a fluted Tuscan doorcase under a pediment. The windows are sash style, set within painted stone architraves, and each window has internal panelled shutters.
Local climate
Pow House 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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