Prince Charlie's House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1957. Shop with flat above. 4 related planning applications.
Prince Charlie's House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-gutter-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1957
- Type
- Shop with flat above
- Address
- Prince Charlie's House, High Cross Street, Brampton, Carlisle, CA8 1RP
- OS grid reference
- NY 530 611
- Coordinates
- 54.94275, -2.7343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th-century shop with a flat above, which has been altered in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is stuccoed with stone dressings and quoins, and has a Welsh slate roof with coped gables, kneelers, and brick chimney stacks. It is two storeys high, originally with three bays, but now appears to have been reduced. The entrance has a quoined surround with a round head and is flanked by large 20th-century shop windows. The upper floor has two-pane sashes with painted stone surrounds, with filled windows above covered by stucco. A two-storey, two-bay extension to the left has a 20th-century shop window and single-pane sashes above. A wall plaque indicates that Bonnie Prince Charlie established his headquarters here during the siege of Carlisle from November 12th to 18th 1745.
Local climate
Prince Charlie's House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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