Blackburn House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1985. House.
Blackburn House
- WRENN ID
- secret-window-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blackburn House, the Green, Hayton and Mealo
- OS grid reference
- NY 107 414
- Coordinates
- 54.7597, -3.38912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blackburn House is an early 19th-century house constructed from dressed red sandstone. It features V-jointed quoins and a moulded parapet set on a chamfered plinth. The roof is hipped and covered with graduated greenslate, complemented by sandstone chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and four bays. The entrance boasts a top-glazed panelled door with a patterned fanlight, framed by a pilastered surround. The sash windows, which include glazing bars, are set in stone surrounds, with the window above the entrance being tripartite.
Local climate
Blackburn House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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