Monkey Puzzle is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Monkey Puzzle
- WRENN ID
- over-tracery-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Monkey Puzzle, Mallerstang, Westmorland and Furness, CA17 4JU
- OS grid reference
- NY 783 015
- Coordinates
- 54.40924, -2.33564
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Monkey Puzzle is an 18th-century house with later alterations. It is constructed from coursed, squared rubble and features quoins. The main house has a graduated stone-flagged roof with corniced stone end chimneys, and there are projecting hipped wings on either side at the front. The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-bay main front. This includes a part-glazed central door flanked by two sash windows on each floor. The west wing is connected to the main house by a single bay that has a wagon arch, which now contains a part-glazed door with a sash window above. The south wall of the west wing features a central door with a window on either side and above, all adorned with projecting keystones and imposts to semicircular heads. The east wing has a French window inserted in the west wall, and the south wall has two doors (one of which is part-blocked) with a window above.
Local climate
Monkey Puzzle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 71 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 46 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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