Moorhouse Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1957. House. 3 related planning applications.
Moorhouse Hall
- WRENN ID
- turning-railing-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1957
- Type
- House
- Address
- Moorhouse Hall, Wetheral, CA4 8PA
- OS grid reference
- NY 461 561
- Coordinates
- 54.89727, -2.84095
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moorhouse Hall is a house dating from the late 18th century, with additions from the 19th century. It features roughcast walls with stone dressings and a slate roof, along with rendered chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has four bays. To the left, there is a projecting two-storey bay with a hipped roof. The entrance is adorned with moulded pilasters, a moulded and ornamented entablature, and a pediment. The windows are sash style with glazing bars. To the right, there is a two-storey, three-bay extension that maintains the same roof line and includes a 20th-century entrance. Additionally, there is a further 19th-century extension that has a filled carriage arch with a 20th-century window.
Local climate
Moorhouse Hall 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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