Tower Bank House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. House.
Tower Bank House
- WRENN ID
- drifting-truss-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tower Bank House, B 5285, Claife, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 369 956
- Coordinates
- 54.35281, -2.97098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower Bank House is an early 19th-century house located near Sawrey. It is built of roughcast stone and features slate roofs. The house has two storeys and three bays, with a one-storey recessed gabled bay on the left and a two-storey recessed gabled bay on the right. The windows are sashed, with horns on the ground floor windows and glazing bars on the first floor. The left recessed bay includes a round-headed recess with a blocked lunette featuring intersecting glazing bars, while the right recessed bay has a first-floor round-headed sashed window with glazing bars intersecting at the top. The house has gable-end stacks. The entrance features a fanlight and a half-glazed door, along with a later gabled porch that has reeded angle pilasters. The rear of the house contains sashed windows and two windows with small-paned fixed glazing that includes opening lights. Inside, the property has enriched cornices. Tower Bank House is owned by the National Trust and was a gift from Beatrix Potter.
Local climate
Tower Bank 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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