Burgh Head House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1957. House. 1 related planning application.

Burgh Head House

WRENN ID
quiet-facade-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 April 1957
Type
House
Address
Burgh Head House, Burgh by Sands, CA5 6AP
OS grid reference
NY 327 590
Coordinates
54.92198, -3.05027
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Burgh Head House is a house built in the early 19th century, with a mid-19th century extension. It features painted rendered walls on a squared painted stone plinth and a graduated slate roof, along with rendered end chimney stacks. The house is two storeys high and has three bays. The entrance includes a six-panel door with a glazed fanlight, set within a pilastered surround topped by a moulded cornice. The windows are sash style with glazing bars and painted stone sills.

To the right, there is a lower two-storey, three-bay extension constructed of English garden wall bond brickwork, also with a graduated slate roof and brick chimney stacks. The ground floor of this extension has two-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows featuring cast-iron patterned casements and hood moulds. Above, there are gabled dormers with similar single-light patterned casements and decorated bargeboards. The rear of the house includes a 20th-century garage door.

Local climate

Burgh Head 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 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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