Birkby Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. House.

Birkby Lodge

WRENN ID
standing-chimney-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 March 1967
Type
House
Address
Birkby Lodge, Crosscanonby
OS grid reference
NY 066 380
Coordinates
54.72874, -3.45108
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Birkby Lodge is an early 19th-century house located in Crosscanonby. It features painted stucco on a chamfered plinth and has a hipped roof made of graduated greenslate, with overhanging eaves supported by shaped wooden brackets. The house has stucco chimney stacks and is two storeys tall with three bays. The entrance includes a panelled door topped by an interlace overlight, all within a prostyle Ionic porch. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, and the ground floor windows are set in round-headed recesses.

Local climate

Birkby Lodge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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