Routenbeck House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Routenbeck House
- WRENN ID
- silver-slate-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Routenbeck House, Wythop, Cumberland, CA13 9YN
- OS grid reference
- NY 195 304
- Coordinates
- 54.66242, -3.24859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Routenbeck House is a house dating from the early 18th century, with a late 18th-century extension. It features painted roughcast walls adorned with angle pilasters, and the oldest section is set on projecting plinth stones. The building has a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers, along with painted roughcast chimney stacks. It is two storeys high with two bays, and the older part has sash windows with glazing bars framed in 19th-century painted stone surrounds. The extension to the left has a 20th-century glazed door and sash windows, also in painted stone surrounds.
Local climate
Routenbeck House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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