The Monks Oven is a Grade II* listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1989. A Medieval Oven.
The Monks Oven
- WRENN ID
- steep-newel-dust
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1989
- Type
- Oven
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Monks Oven, Ponsonby, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 052 064
- Coordinates
- 54.44475, -3.4633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Monks' Oven is a large detached oven of uncertain date, associated with the nearby monastery. It is built from ashlar and rubble, although much of the exterior stone has been removed, leaving an earth-covered mound. A single, very low, semicircular-headed doorway is located in the center of the south-west face. The interior measures approximately 1.75 meters high and 3.95 meters in diameter. The floor consists of tightly-packed stones, and the walls are made of ashlar in three courses, with the top course shaped to support the shallow-domed roof, which is constructed from small stones packed tightly together. The Monks' Oven is part of an important group of monastic buildings and is situated next to a mill-leat.
Local climate
The Monks Oven sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,570 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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