Hesket House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. Public house, farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Hesket House

WRENN ID
eastward-barrel-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1967
Type
Public house, farmhouse
Address
Hesket House, Bowness, CA7 5BU
OS grid reference
NY 239 622
Coordinates
54.94941, -3.1886
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Heskett House, now a farmhouse but formerly a public house known as the Steam Packet Inn, was built in the early 19th century. The building is constructed of red sandstone with a plinth of split cobbles, featuring V-jointed quoins. It has a graduated greenslate roof and brick chimney stacks. The house is two storeys high and consists of three bays. A panelled door is set within a moulded pilastered surround, topped with a triglyph frieze and dentilled cornice. Single-pane sash windows are set in plain painted stone surrounds. A Roman altar is built into the wall above the entrance; details of its inscription can be found in Collingwood & Wright's Roman Inscribed Stones of Britain, 1965, page 629.

Local climate

Hesket 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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  • 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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