Beech House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. House. 3 related planning applications.
Beech House
- WRENN ID
- vast-barrel-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beech House, Westward, CA7 8BG
- OS grid reference
- NY 324 489
- Coordinates
- 54.83095, -3.05342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech House is a late 18th-century house with an early 19th-century extension. It is built of painted render, with a graduated slate roof and sandstone chimney stacks. The original section has two storeys and two bays, with a lower three-bay extension to the right. A 20th-century glazed door is set within a painted stone surround under a pediment. The original section has sash windows in painted stone surrounds. The extension has a 20th-century door on its extreme right and sash windows in painted stone surrounds, with the exception of an enlarged ground-floor window. It is grouped with Curthwaite House for group value.
Local climate
Beech House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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