Knells House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
Knells House
- WRENN ID
- peeling-marble-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Knells House, the Knells, Stanwix Rural, CA6 4JG
- OS grid reference
- NY 413 605
- Coordinates
- 54.93637, -2.91635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knells House is a house, dated 1824, attributed to John Dixon. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar with a lead hipped slate roof. The building has two storeys and a facade of three bays facing the entrance, extending to five bays on the south-east facade. A stepped tetrastyle portico with plain Ionic columns, a moulded entablature and cornice provides access. The entrance is framed by a plain surround with a moulded projecting cornice supported on scrolled console brackets. Ground floor windows have hollow-chamfered tripartite surrounds with cornices on scrolled console brackets. Upper floor windows have plain surrounds, with the central window featuring a cornice on scrolled console brackets. A rusticated plinth, a plain string course, a dentilled and moulded cornice, and a parapet complete the exterior. The south-east facade exhibits double-bay pediments flanking a recessed entrance bay, with squared pilaster surrounds to the entrance, supporting a moulded cornice. Ashlar chimney stacks are present. The property was sold by the Dixon family in 1872 and later divided into seven flats. Records indicate that John Dobson worked on the building for John Dixon in 1845.
Local climate
Knells House 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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