Whelpo Head is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Whelpo Head
- WRENN ID
- still-gravel-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Whelpo Head, Caldbeck, Cumberland, CA7 8HH
- OS grid reference
- NY 304 397
- Coordinates
- 54.74742, -3.08271
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century farmhouse. It is built with painted rendered walls, featuring angle pilasters on a chamfered plinth. The roof is covered with graduated slate tiles and has brick chimney stacks. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three bays. The front features a panelled door set beneath a painted radial fanlight, all contained within a round-headed arch with a false keystone. It has sash windows with glazing bars, set in painted stone surrounds. Adjoining farm buildings are not of architectural interest.
Local climate
Whelpo Head sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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