Allan Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. House. 9 related planning applications.
Allan Bank
- WRENN ID
- under-zinc-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Allan Bank, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 9QB
- OS grid reference
- NY 333 076
- Coordinates
- 54.46021, -3.02972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Allan Bank, built in 1805, is a two-storey house with low proportions located in Grasmere. The Wordsworth family rented this house and lived here from 1808 to 1811, hosting notable visitors such as Thomas de Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Sara Hutchinson. The house underwent alterations around 1834 by the next owner. It features scored stucco on the exterior and a slate roof. The entrance front includes a gabled porch and a central gabled section with two sash windows on each floor, adorned with moulded labels. The side wings each have two sash windows on each floor, although the left wing includes a porch. The windows have been renewed and now have fewer glazing bars.
Local climate
Allan Bank sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- 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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