Workshop and Flat South East of Ormathwaite Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. Workshop, flat. 1 related planning application.

Workshop and Flat South East of Ormathwaite Hall

WRENN ID
gentle-quartz-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 March 1967
Type
Workshop, flat
Address
Workshop and Flat South East of Ormathwaite Hall, Underskiddaw, Cumberland, CA12 4PQ
OS grid reference
NY 268 253
Coordinates
54.61764, -3.13474
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a workshop with a flat above, located southeast of Ormathwaite Hall. It was originally constructed in the late 18th century for Dr. William Brownrigg, who used it as a laboratory for his chemical experiments. The structure has roughcast walls and is topped with a graduated hipped greenslate roof, featuring a roughcast chimney stack. It is two storeys high and consists of four bays, with single-storey, two-bay wings on either side. The entrance has a panelled door set in a stone architrave beneath a pediment. The windows are casement style with glazing bars in stone surrounds, and there is an octagonal window above the doorway with radial glazing bars. Dr. Brownrigg, who lived from 1711 to 1800, is known for his treatise on salt making, among other works.

Local climate

Workshop and Flat South East of Ormathwaite Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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