Calgarth Park is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. House. 2 related planning applications.
Calgarth Park
- WRENN ID
- watchful-lead-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Calgarth Park, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA23 1LF
- OS grid reference
- NY 397 001
- Coordinates
- 54.39344, -2.9297
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Calgarth Park is an early 19th-century house, formerly the home of Richard Watson (1737-1816), Bishop of Llandaff and Whig politician. The entrance front is three stories high and features a central semi-circular Tuscan porch with a cornice, a round-headed doorway, and flanking windows. Below are two windows set within Tuscan pilastered architraves with cornices on brackets; above are three windows. The top floor has three six-pane sashes. All windows are in moulded frames. A main cornice is supported by brackets. Symmetrical two-storeyed side wings each have two similar sash windows on each floor. Modern extensions at each end have been excluded from the listing. The house was formerly used as a hospital and is currently empty.
Local climate
Calgarth Park sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% 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 — 8 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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