Scarness Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Scarness Dower House
- WRENN ID
- over-merlon-quill
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Scarness Dower House, Bassenthwaite, Cumberland, CA12 4QZ
- OS grid reference
- NY 218 306
- Coordinates
- 54.66474, -3.21243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Scarness Dower House is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private house. It is dated and inscribed above the entrance with "J. & G.W. 1726," referring to Joseph and Grace Wane. The building features painted roughcast walls with angle pilasters and is topped with a graduated greenslate roof that has ashlar chimney stacks. It has two storeys and five bays. The entrance includes a 20th-century door set within a bolection architrave beneath the datestone. The sash windows are framed in painted stone architraves. Inside, the ground floor on the left side contains an 18th-century fireplace flanked by round-headed niches.
Local climate
Scarness Dower House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% 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 — 1 transaction since 2023
- 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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