High Wray House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1986. House. 4 related planning applications.
High Wray House
- WRENN ID
- moated-chalk-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- High Wray House, Claife, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 0JQ
- OS grid reference
- SD 373 999
- Coordinates
- 54.39124, -2.96596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Wray House is a house dating to 1728, with subsequent alterations and 19th-century additions. The house is built of roughcast stone with a slate roof. The north-west facade has five bays; the first bay is higher and has a single-storey section above the cellar, set into the ground slope, with gables that break forward and correspond to the first floor of the main house, and incorporates a projecting single-storey wing with asymmetrical gables between the first and second bays. The ground floor includes a sash window with glazing bars in the second bay, and casement windows in the third and fourth bays. The first floor has a sash window with glazing bars and margin lights in the first bay, while the other bays feature 20th-century cross-mullioned wooden windows, chamfered internally and with applied lead strips to the glazing, said to be copies of original windows. The house has corbelled gable-end stacks with round shafts, and a similar cross-axial stack with two round shafts. An entrance to the third bay contains a gabled slate slab porch and a two-panel door, with a bell on a bracket above. The north-east facade is of one storey and three bays, featuring sash windows with glazing bars and margin lights, and paired doors to the central entrance which is accessed by steps. A single-storey gabled wing is present on the south-west facade, with a window to the north-west, and on the south-east facade, a projecting three-bay gable includes sash windows with glazing bars, with a margin light to the third bay. The second bay of the ground floor has an entrance with a panelled door, and small flanking casement windows. There is a gable-end stack with a round shaft.
Inside, there are some chamfered beams and iron hooks in the kitchen ceiling. A fielded panel spice cupboard door, an early 18th-century six-panel door, and a three-pane fielded panel door with a narrow central panel are also present. The cellar has slate shelves and a water pump is in the wing. The first floor has two fielded panel doors and some plank and muntin partitioning which is not original. A wooden spiral stair leads to the attic, which has a fishbone roof, a truss with a wooden hook, and a wide-boarded door with wooden studs, a latch, and strap hinges.
Local climate
High Wray House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 — 3 transactions since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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