Allonby House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. Private house, assembly room.
Allonby House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-panel-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1967
- Type
- Private house, assembly room
- Address
- Allonby House, the Square
- OS grid reference
- NY 081 430
- Coordinates
- 54.77415, -3.42965
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Allonby House is a private residence that was originally built as sea-water baths and an assembly room in 1835. The building features painted stucco and rusticated ashlar, with angle pilasters, a string course, and a heavily-moulded cornice set on a chamfered plinth. It has a graduated slate roof with cement rendered chimney stacks and consists of two storeys with five bays. The central three bays are framed by a two-storey tetrastyle Ionic portico in antis, which includes top-glazed double doors in a pilastered surround. The windows are sash style with glazing bars set in plain reveals. At the rear, there is a glazed 20th-century veranda beneath a scrolled wrought-iron balcony, with upper-floor French windows featuring margin lights in pilastered surrounds. According to Mannix & Whellan's Directory from 1847, a suite of hot, cold, and vapour baths was established in 1835 at a cost of £1,800, funded by shares. The building also housed news and assembly rooms, supported by subscriptions. There is a lean-to outbuilding at the right front, which is not of interest.
Local climate
Allonby House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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