Arkle House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1994. House, office.
Arkle House
- WRENN ID
- north-dormer-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1994
- Type
- House, office
- Address
- Arkle House, 31, Lonsdale Street
- OS grid reference
- NY 403 559
- Coordinates
- 54.89432, -2.93122
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Arkle House is a building that dates from 1874 and is currently used as an office. It features English garden wall bond brickwork on a chamfered plinth, with all dressings made of calciferous sandstone. The building has a brick cornice with modillions and a central shaped pediment. The roof is covered with Welsh slate, and there are original brick chimney stacks at each end.
The house is two storeys high and has three bays, with a central-stair, double-depth plan. The entrance features a central panelled door and fanlight set within a carved porch supported by twisted columns, topped with a cornice and fret parapet. To the left, there is a canted bay window that extends from the basement. The other windows are two- and three-light sashes, each with dividing pilasters, shaped lintels, and relieving brick arches. A full dormer window with three lights mirrors the details of the other windows, and the pediment includes a circular date plaque and a ball finial. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Arkle House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
- No related consent applications matched
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