High House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
High House
- WRENN ID
- swift-paling-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- High House, Bowness, CA7 5EN
- OS grid reference
- NY 256 570
- Coordinates
- 54.90264, -3.16088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High House is a farmhouse dated 1742, featuring an inscription of "Michael Smith" above the entrance. The building has undergone alterations in the 19th century. It is constructed of English garden wall bond brickwork set on a chamfered stone plinth, with V-jointed quoins. The roof is made of 19th-century Welsh slate and includes eaves modillions and brick chimney stacks from the same period.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has five bays with a double span. The entrance features a top-glazed four-panel door within a bolection moulded architrave, accompanied by an inscribed and dated frieze, all topped by a swan-neck pediment with a decorated tympanum. The windows are 20th-century single-pane sashes set in narrow painted stone architraves, while the stair window above the entrance is larger and has a 19th-century coloured-glass sash.
The brickwork on the front and sides changes above the ground floor, indicating that the upper storey was likely rebuilt in the 19th century, although it retains the original window surrounds and quoins. The outbuildings associated with High House are not of interest.
Local climate
High House 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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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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