Castle Hill Education Settlement is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1977. Educational facility. 3 related planning applications.
Castle Hill Education Settlement
- WRENN ID
- buried-turret-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1977
- Type
- Educational facility
- Address
- Castle Hill Education Settlement, High Street, Maryport, CA15 6BQ
- OS grid reference
- NY 034 363
- Coordinates
- 54.71262, -3.50047
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Hill Education Settlement is an early 19th-century building located on Maryport High Street. It is two storeys tall and has a rendered exterior with coped gable ends. The façade features three windows above two, with stone pilasters at each end. The roof is covered with slate. A prominent heavy stone porch with a moulded cornice and steps leads to the entrance, which has a six-field door beneath a rectangular fanlight. The side and rear elevations include glazing bars, and there is a bow window at the rear.
Local climate
Castle Hill Education Settlement 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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