Sowerby Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. Watermill. 1 related planning application.
Sowerby Mill House
- WRENN ID
- veiled-rood-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1967
- Type
- Watermill
- Address
- Sowerby Mill House, Sebergham, CA5 7HR
- OS grid reference
- NY 357 415
- Coordinates
- 54.76432, -3.00036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sowerby Mill House is a watermill that has been converted into a private house, likely built in the late 18th century or early 19th century. The building is constructed from whitewashed sandstone rubble with flush quoins and features a 20th-century tile roof and a 20th-century brick chimney stack. It is two storeys high and has five bays arranged in an L-shape. There are external stone steps leading to a 20th-century door on the first floor, with a 20th-century window to the right of the steps and another on the upper floor. A projecting gabled bay to the right includes a 20th-century door set in an alternate-block surround and a small 20th-century window above. The end wall on the right side has an external mill wheel. Inside the end bay, the complete mill machinery is preserved as a feature of interest within an otherwise 20th-century house. A 20th-century garage was under construction to the left at the time of the survey and is not of interest. The building is listed partly for its group value with Sowerby Mill.
Local climate
Sowerby Mill House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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