Spout House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1952. House.

Spout House

WRENN ID
muffled-cornice-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 November 1952
Type
House
Address
Spout House, Crosthwaite and Lyth, Westmorland and Furness
OS grid reference
SD 444 917
Coordinates
54.31832, -2.85584
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Spout House is a house dating from the early 18th century, with later alterations. It is built of roughcast stone rubble and features slate roofs. The southeast elevation has two storeys and six bays, with the fifth and sixth bays projecting forward under a gable that includes an attic. There are two drip courses above the end two bays. The ground floor has casement windows beneath drips, while the end two bays have sash windows with glazing bars and horns. The first floor features two horizontally sliding sashes flanking a blocked window and a casement window, with the end two bays mirroring the ground floor. The attic of the end two bays has small-paned fixed glazing with an opening light. The entrance is located in the fourth bay and is sheltered by a lean-to porch. There is a cross-axial stack, and the right return has a lateral stack, a drip course, and small-paned casements, along with one sash window with single glazing bars and horns. The rear of the house includes a gabled wing with a gable-end stack featuring a rounded shaft, and an outshut with a catslide roof, which also has casement windows.

Inside, the house has chamfered beams and a spice cupboard door that reads: "TAM/17U9". There are two-panel doors, one of which has a wooden handle. A beef loft is situated above the fireplace, and there is a round-headed recess with shaped shelves. The staircase features slender turned balusters, square newels, and a moulded handrail, along with ramped dog gates with splats.

Local climate

Spout House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 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 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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