Houghton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
Houghton Hall
- WRENN ID
- sacred-finial-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Houghton Hall, Stanwix Rural, CA6 4JB
- OS grid reference
- NY 410 598
- Coordinates
- 54.93024, -2.92099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Houghton Hall is an early 19th-century house with stucco walls and stone dressings, topped by a slate roof with lead hips and stucco chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and five bays. The entrance features a portico supported by square and cylindrical fluted Greek Doric columns, adorned with triglyphs and a moulded cornice. The entrance surround is moulded, leading to a six-panel door with a glazed fanlight above. The windows also have moulded surrounds, with two-pane sashes and wooden shaped pelmets over the cases. The eaves are decorated with scrolled double modillions. Out-buildings are not included in this description.
Local climate
Houghton Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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