Walliss House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. House.

Walliss House

WRENN ID
still-pedestal-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 February 1968
Type
House
Address
Walliss House, Lowther, Westmorland and Furness
OS grid reference
NY 526 241
Coordinates
54.61022, -2.73419
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walliss House is a house dating from the early to mid 18th century. It features roughcast walls and is topped with a graduated greenslate roof, which has rebuilt brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has five bays. The entrance is a top-glazed centre panelled door set within a painted stone surround. The windows are sash style, framed by raised painted stone surrounds.

Local climate

Walliss House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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