Beech House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1957. House.
Beech House
- WRENN ID
- deep-ledge-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1957
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beech House, Cumwhitton
- OS grid reference
- NY 505 520
- Coordinates
- 54.86075, -2.77237
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech House is a house built in the early 19th century. It is constructed from dressed red sandstone ashlar and sits on a chamfered plinth with raised quoins. The roof is made of graduated slate and features stone chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays. The entrance is a 20th-century glazed door that is framed by an alternate block surround and a keyed entablature. The windows are two-pane sash windows with plain raised stone surrounds.
Local climate
Beech House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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