Oak Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. House.
Oak Hill
- WRENN ID
- quartered-corridor-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oak Hill, Lorton, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 159 260
- Coordinates
- 54.62237, -3.30353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Hill is an early 19th-century house located in Lorton. It features painted incised stucco with decorative eaves modillions and angle pilasters. The roof is a graduated hipped design made of greenslate, complemented by cement rendered chimney stacks. The house is two storeys tall and has three bays, with a lower two-storey, three-bay wing at the rear. The entrance includes a panelled door with an overlight, set beneath a bracketed cornice. There are canted bay windows on either side of the entrance, and sash windows with glazing bars are located under bracketed cornices. The rear wing also has sash windows with glazing bars set in plain reveals.
Local climate
Oak Hill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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