Kirkandrews Tower is a Grade II* listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1957. Tower house.
Kirkandrews Tower
- WRENN ID
- rough-rafter-sparrow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1957
- Type
- Tower house
- OS grid reference
- NY 389 719
- Coordinates
- 55.0381, -2.95737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kirkandrews Tower is a house that originally served as a tower house, built in the 16th century to replace an earlier structure for the Graham family, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. The building features thick red sandstone rubble walls sitting on a chamfered plinth, large flush quoins, and corbelled parapets with projecting water spouts. It has a steeply pitched gabled slate roof with a parapet and end stone chimney stacks. The tower has three storeys and two bays.
A 20th-century door on the first floor, framed by a roll moulded architrave, is accessed by 19th-century external stone steps. The entrance to the basement below features a plank door with a similar architrave. To the left of the entrance is a small original window, while two similar windows on the two levels above have been blocked. There are partly blocked 18th-century openings on three levels to the left, which now have 20th-century casements. The rear wall includes a large blocked window from the 18th century, a 19th-century window to the left, and other 20th-century windows.
Inside, the tower has a vaulted basement that was originally accessed by a trap door from the first floor. A newel staircase is located in the thickness of the wall beside the entrance.
Local climate
Kirkandrews Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 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 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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