Main House at Irton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. House.
Main House at Irton Hall
- WRENN ID
- winding-baluster-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Main House at Irton Hall, Irton with Santon, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 104 005
- Coordinates
- 54.39265, -3.38031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Irton Hall's main house is a large building that was later used as a school and was empty during the survey in July 1984. The house was enlarged in 1874 by Grayson for J L Burns Lindow. It is constructed of coursed, squared rubble with quoins on a chamfered plinth, featuring an embattled parapet supported by moulded eaves and gargoyles at the corners. The roof is hipped and covered with graduated slate, complemented by stone chimneys. The building has two storeys and an entrance front with three bays, arranged in a 2:1 configuration. The entrance features an offset plank door with decorative ironwork, set within a full-height porch. The first floor has mullioned windows, which are transomed. The garden front is long and varied. The house is listed because it is an integral part of Irton Hall, while 20th-century additions are not considered of interest.
Local climate
Main House at Irton Hall 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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