Wallthwaite is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. A Early Modern Farmhouse.
Wallthwaite
- WRENN ID
- western-zinc-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Wallthwaite, Matterdale, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 353 262
- Coordinates
- 54.62723, -3.00231
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wallthwaite is a farmhouse built in the early 18th century, with a later addition. It is constructed from stone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof. The building has two storeys and four bays, with the first two bays likely added later. The windows in the first two bays are sashed with vertical glazing bars and horns, although the ground floor window has been replaced with a 20th-century casement. The windows in the third and fourth bays are smaller paired sashes, some featuring a small moulding around them, while others have been replaced with casements; there is also a fire window in the third bay. The entrance is located in the first bay, with another entrance between the third and fourth bays, both featuring a gabled porch that incorporates the date 1720, although this is likely a later addition. The house has gable-end stacks and a cross-axial stack. At the rear, there are two gabled wings flanking a lean-to outshut, and a garage door has been inserted into the wing on the right. Inside, there is an early 18th-century fielded-panel partition with a three-panel door, a small plain spice cupboard, and a plastered heck partition wall.
Local climate
Wallthwaite sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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