Roche House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House.
Roche House
- WRENN ID
- dusted-cellar-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Roche House, Dean
- OS grid reference
- NY 061 249
- Coordinates
- 54.61138, -3.45475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Roche House is a house dated and inscribed over the entrance with "J. & (?) J 1759". It features painted roughcast walls set on large projecting plinth stones and has a graduated greenslate roof with kneelers and roughcast chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has two bays. The entrance has a 20th-century door within a painted alternate-block surround. The windows are 20th-century casements set in 2-light flat stone-mullioned frames.
Local climate
Roche House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,540 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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