Low Wood Nook and Former Stables is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1986. House, stables.

Low Wood Nook and Former Stables

WRENN ID
tenth-pillar-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 January 1986
Type
House, stables
Address
Low Wood Nook and Former Stables, Blennerhasset and Torpenhow
OS grid reference
NY 193 405
Coordinates
54.75345, -3.25525
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Low Wood Nook and former stables is a house and stables that were used as an inn in the 19th century. The building is dated and inscribed over the entrance with "J. & E.A. (Addison) 1663" and has extensive alterations and additions from the 18th century. It features painted rendered walls on a chamfered plinth beneath a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and stone chimney stacks. The structure is two storeys with an attic, consisting of two bays and a lower two-bay extension, with the stables located under a common roof to the left.

There is a 20th-century door in the original 17th-century surround beneath the inscribed lintel, which has a hoodmould with dated label stops. The building has double sash windows in late 18th-century painted stone surrounds, and a central pointed attic window that is currently boarded. The extension includes sash windows in painted stone surrounds, with the upper floor windows featuring glazing bars. The former stable has a plank door and casement windows, some of which are boarded, all within painted stone surrounds.

This building is notable as the birthplace of Thomas Addison, who later moved to London and contributed the ceiling for Torpenhow Church in 1689. He was also a relative of the essayist Joseph Addison, as referenced in C.R. Hudleston & R.S. Boumphrey's "Cumberland Families & Heraldry," published in 1978.

Local climate

Low Wood Nook and Former Stables sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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