Muncaster House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1984. House.
Muncaster House
- WRENN ID
- late-cinder-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Muncaster House, Loweswater, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 147 210
- Coordinates
- 54.57715, -3.3206
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Muncaster House is a house dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed of rendered rubble and features a Lakeland slate roof with a stone ridge, gable copings, and square kneelers, along with rendered end and off-centre chimneys. The building may have originally served as both a house and a cottage.
It has two storeys, comprising one narrow bay and two wider bays. The right-hand section, which is the house part, includes a central six-panelled door set within a round-arched iron trellis porch. The windows have been replaced and feature thin glazing bars within painted stone surrounds. The rear elevation displays a round-headed staircase window with a Y-traceried head and small fire windows to the left, while other windows are 19th-century sashes. There is a small pentice at the rear, along with additional pent extensions and projections at both ends, all made from similar materials. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Muncaster House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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