Castletown is a Grade II* listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1957. House. 3 related planning applications.
Castletown
- WRENN ID
- low-hall-mallow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1957
- Type
- House
- Address
- Castletown, Rockcliffe, CA6 4BN
- OS grid reference
- NY 348 620
- Coordinates
- 54.94926, -3.01939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castletown is a house built in 1811 by Peter Nicholson and William Reid for Robert Mounsey of Carlisle, with a rear facade dated 1831. It is constructed from calciferous sandstone ashlar and features a chamfered plinth, a moulded cornice, a parapet, and angle pilaster strips. The roof is made of green slate with lead hips and stone chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and five bays, with flanking pedimented wings that are two storeys and two bays each, as well as extensions to the right that include a two-storey single bay and a single-storey three bay section.
The garden front boasts a stepped tetrastyle portico with squared columns and incised decoration, a design commonly used by Paul Nixon, a stonemason from Carlisle. It also features a moulded cornice and a cast-iron balcony. The entrance includes a glazed door with a fanlight and sidelights, along with a large overall round-headed patterned fanlight. The large casement windows on the ground floor have external louvred shutters, while the upper floor features sash windows with glazing bars.
The rear entrance is marked by two Doric columns in antis. Inside, the house has moulded plaster ceilings, panelled shutters for the windows, and panelled doors. The hall is highlighted by Doric columns and a semicircular cantilever staircase, while the dining room features Ionic columns with an entablature.
Local climate
Castletown 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 52 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- 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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