Eskmeals is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. House.

Eskmeals

WRENN ID
strange-cinder-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Eskmeals, Bootle, Cumberland
OS grid reference
SD 090 935
Coordinates
54.32916, -3.39973
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Eskmeals is a house dated 1761, with the inscription "I & BB/1761" on its pediment. It is currently unoccupied as of 1988. The building features roughcast stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. The west elevation has two storeys, with a three-bay center flanked by a two-bay recessed wing to the north and a lower two-bay recessed wing to the south. The central section has quoins and a cornice, and all gables are coped with kneelers. The windows are sashed with glazing bars, with a tripartite sashed window on the ground floor of the north wing and irregularly spaced windows on the south wing.

The central entrance is highlighted by a gabled porch with angle pilasters, and the entrance itself features moulded reveals and a pediment, along with a half-glazed door. There are four gable-end stacks. The rear of the house includes a gabled wing with a stack and some sashed windows; the south wing has a lean-to outshut and a single-storey service wing, which contains a six-fielded panel door and a window with small-paned fixed glazing.

Inside, there are some plaster panels with a dado, a fireplace with a Regency grate, an elliptical-headed recess with reeded pilasters and a shell motif, and a staircase with moulded square balusters. The south wing features stop-chamfered beams and doors with H-L hinges, one of which has strap hinges and an ornate handle.

Local climate

Eskmeals sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 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 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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