Papcastle House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. House.
Papcastle House
- WRENN ID
- sheer-soffit-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1967
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NY 108 313
- Coordinates
- 54.66956, -3.38421
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Papcastle House is a house from the mid or late 18th century, with alterations and additions from the 19th century. It features painted incised stucco, an eaves cornice, and V-jointed quoins set on a chamfered plinth. The roof is made of graduated greenslate, with coped gables and kneelers, and there are incised stucco chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and five bays, arranged in a double span. The entrance includes a panelled door with an overlight, set within panelled reveals and a shallow fluted Doric porch that has a triglyph frieze. The windows are sash style, framed in painted stone architraves, with larger tripartite Victorian windows on both floors.
Local climate
Papcastle House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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