Boat House East of Naworth Castle is a Grade I listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. A C16 Boat house.
Boat House East of Naworth Castle
- WRENN ID
- broken-stair-gorse
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1984
- Type
- Boat house
- Address
- Boat House East of Naworth Castle, Brampton
- OS grid reference
- NY 560 625
- Coordinates
- 54.95599, -2.68834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boat House, located east of Naworth Castle, was built around 1520 for Thomas Lord Dacre. It served as a fuel store for the castle and was likely designed as a flanking tower for the gatehouse, forming part of the early 16th-century outer bailey of the castle. The building was probably restored by Salvin in 1845. It is constructed from dressed calciferous and red sandstone, featuring a flat roof that is concealed by battlemented parapets. The structure is a small, roughly square tower that originally had one and a half storeys, projecting into the moat. It has 20th-century garage doors and small 1-2-3 light windows on the south and east faces. The parapet displays the arms of the Dacre family along with the initials TD and ED, representing Thomas and Elizabeth Dacre. The Boat House was used as a studio by artist George Howard, who later became the 9th Earl, and is currently utilized as a garage.
Local climate
Boat House East of Naworth Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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