Grindal House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.

Grindal House

WRENN ID
odd-cloister-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1984
Type
House
Address
Grindal House, B5345, St. Bees
OS grid reference
NX 970 119
Coordinates
54.49259, -3.59053
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Grindal House is a house from the mid-19th century with later additions and alterations. The main block features incised stucco with rusticated quoins on the banded ground floor. There is a string course between the ground and first floors, and a sill band at the second floor, topped by an eaves cornice with egg and dart moulding. The south end wing also has incised stucco and an eaves cornice. The building has hipped roofs covered with graduated slates, along with corniced, rendered chimneys and pedimented dormers on the main block.

The symmetrical main block is three stories high and has three bays. It includes a central panelled door set in a rusticated architrave, flanked by tripartite sash windows. Each floor above has three sash windows (the second floor features 16-pane sashes), all with rusticated lintels. The north return has three sashes on each floor and in the cellar. The two-story, two-bay wing has tripartite sashes on the ground floor and single sashes above, one of which is a 16-pane window. All windows are framed in architraves.

Local climate

Grindal House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,580 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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