Cheshire Home Holehird is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. Mansion. 4 related planning applications.
Cheshire Home Holehird
- WRENN ID
- ghost-kitchen-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1973
- Type
- Mansion
- Address
- Cheshire Home Holehird, Windermere, Westmorland and Furness, LA23 1NP
- OS grid reference
- NY 410 008
- Coordinates
- 54.39957, -2.90993
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holehird is a large and dignified Gothic mansion built in 1869, situated on a hill with fine grounds overlooking the lake. The building features gables and octagonal chimneys, and it is constructed of local slate. It has two storeys and includes stone-mullioned windows with pointed or Tudor-arched lights, some of which are cusped, as well as bay windows. The entrance is Tudor-arched and located in a gabled porch, which has an ogee niche displaying the date of construction. The mansion is characterized by its long, low proportions.
Local climate
Cheshire Home Holehird sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 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 95% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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