Steelfield Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1985. Large house, old people's home.

Steelfield Hall

WRENN ID
little-basalt-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1985
Type
Large house, old people's home
Address
Steelfield Hall, Gosforth, Cumberland
OS grid reference
NY 065 037
Coordinates
54.4208, -3.44155
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Steelfield Hall is a large house, now functioning as an Old People's Home, built around 1840 for Sir Humphrey Senhouse, with later additions and alterations. The exterior features incised stucco and a hipped roof covered with graduated slate. The building has a U-shaped plan and presents a symmetrical two-storey, five-bay front, arranged in a 1:3:1 pattern.

At the center, there is a large panelled double door flanked by tall sash windows, all set within a tetrastyle Greek Doric portico. Each projecting bay on the ground floor has a large sash window, while the first floor contains four sashes with sill bands. All sash windows include glazing bars and have stucco pedimented heads. The building has a chamfered plinth, bands between the floors and at the eaves, and a cornice that supports a blocking course featuring antefixae at the angles and a blank shield within a central pedimented frame. A central chimney completes the structure.

Local climate

Steelfield 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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