Pennington House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1985. House.

Pennington House

WRENN ID
late-spandrel-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1985
Type
House
Address
Pennington House, Muncaster, Cumberland
OS grid reference
SD 084 962
Coordinates
54.35382, -3.4106
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pennington House is a house with a core dating from the 17th century, which was refronted in the 18th century and remodelled in the 19th century. It is constructed of wet-dashed rubble and features a steeply-pitched graduated slate roof with a stone ridge. The house has two storeys and five symmetrical bays. The central entrance consists of a panelled door beneath a moulded hemispherical canopy, with two sash windows in segment-headed surrounds on either side of each floor. There are massive, stepped, and rendered chimneys at each end of the building. Inside, there are some early panelled doors and an 18th-century round-headed cupboard. The cut-string staircase at the centre rear has turned balusters and newels with a moulded handrail. An adjoining cottage to the south is not of interest.

Local climate

Pennington House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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