Waver House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1967. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Waver House
- WRENN ID
- woven-pinnacle-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Waver House, Waverton, CA7 0AD
- OS grid reference
- NY 234 478
- Coordinates
- 54.81932, -3.19248
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Waver House is an early 19th-century farmhouse constructed from hammer-dressed red sandstone, featuring V-jointed painted quoins on a chamfered plinth. The building has a graduated greenslate roof topped with large stone chimney stacks. It stands two storeys high and consists of three bays. The entrance includes a four-panel door beneath a patterned fanlight, all framed by a dentilled pedimented Tuscan doorcase with an ornamental frieze. The windows are sash style, set within painted stone surrounds. The left end wall features an oval attic window.
Local climate
Waver House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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