Cowmire Hall and Wall Running Approximately 20 Metres to East, with Gate Piers is a Grade II* listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1952. A C17 House.

Cowmire Hall and Wall Running Approximately 20 Metres to East, with Gate Piers

WRENN ID
knotted-zinc-pearl
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 November 1952
Type
House
OS grid reference
SD 427 887
Coordinates
54.29083, -2.881
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The property is a late 16th-century tower house with a 17th-century addition. It is constructed of stone rubble, largely roughcast, with slate roofs. The east-facing facade extends over three storeys and six bays, arranged around a central entrance. Dripcourses are present. Windows are mostly wooden, chamfered cross-mullion style, with iron opening lights; ground-floor windows include intermediate bars, while the 5th and 6th bays feature paired windows. The entrance has limestone quoins, a round hood, and a six-fielded-panel door with an overlight. Gable-end stacks feature rounded shafts. The south return has 20th-century casement windows. The north return includes a window in a former entrance and second-floor casements, with three dripcourses.

The west wing, which forms the tower, has a four-light mullioned window with round-headed lights, an iron grille, and a label mound on its south side. A similar three-light window is present on the second floor. The north elevation of the tower has exposed stone and similar windows with flat relieving arches and wooden cross-mullion windows to the left. A later lean-to porch and flat-roofed porch are also present. Other features include a projecting gable-end stack and a cross-axial stack with rounded shafts, along with a lean-to garderobe projection. A glazed door and a cross-mullion window are located to the rear of a later wing on the south side of the west wing.

The interior includes reused beams on the ground floor, shaped brackets for hanging shelves, and a former kitchen fireplace with four stone posts, infill, and a cupboard with a wide-boarded door. A spice cupboard is located above the entrance passage. A stone fireplace bears a vine trail and a roundel with Fleming arms, while the fire back displays a lion passant, roses, and thistles dated 1649. A 17th-century six-panel door with a top relief frieze is also present, alongside a beam showing signs of an original partition. The tower contains two barrel-vaulted chambers; one features a six-bolection panel door and a bolection-moulded fireplace. The staircase has square newels with ball finials and pendants, turned balusters, and a moulded handrail. The first floor has two bolection-panel doors and some dado rails. The tower’s beams are hollow and chamfered, with run-out stops, and the garderobe features a wooden seat. The second floor exhibits two-panel doors and stud and plaster partitions. The roof has collar and tie trusses.

A stone rubble wall extends eastward from the north-east angle of the house. Towards the eastern end, the ashlar gate piers have cornices and ball finials.

Local climate

Cowmire Hall and Wall Running Approximately 20 Metres to East, with Gate Piers sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 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 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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