Counting House to North East of Monk Coniston Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.

Counting House to North East of Monk Coniston Hall

WRENN ID
pale-tracery-vetch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Counting House to North East of Monk Coniston Hall, B 5285, Westmorland and Furness, LA21 8AQ
OS grid reference
SD 318 983
Coordinates
54.37609, -3.05049
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Counting House, located to the northeast of Monk Coniston Hall, is a house dating from the 18th century or early 19th century. It features a roughcast exterior and a hipped slate roof. The building is two storeys high with three bays. On the ground floor, there are simple Venetian windows that are sashed and have intersecting glazing bars leading to round heads. The first floor has sashed windows with glazing bars that flank a round-headed recess. The entrance is round-headed and includes a hood with guilloche moulding supported by timber Doric columns. It has paired three-panel doors, a fluted frieze, and a fanlight with glazing bars. The house has two cross-axial stacks. At the rear, there is a 20th-century first-floor extension supported by posts. The property is owned by The National Trust.

Local climate

Counting House to North East of Monk Coniston Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,550 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 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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