Lammerside Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. Castle.

Lammerside Castle

WRENN ID
upper-bronze-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 February 1968
Type
Castle
Address
Lammerside Castle, Wharton, Westmorland and Furness
OS grid reference
NY 772 047
Coordinates
54.43786, -2.35217
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lammerside Castle consists of the surviving remains of a 14th-century building's central core. The structure features coursed, squared rubble walls that have been partially robbed. The ground floor has a barrel vault, and some of the first floor still stands. The site is designated as a Scheduled Monument. For a detailed description, refer to the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England.

Local climate

Lammerside Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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