Burnfoot House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Burnfoot House
- WRENN ID
- slow-jade-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Burnfoot House, 1 and 2, Wigton, CA7 9HR
- OS grid reference
- NY 257 486
- Coordinates
- 54.82706, -3.15671
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burnfoot House, dating from the early 19th century, is a house that has been divided into two flats. It features snecked painted ashlar with raised painted quoins set on a chamfered plinth. The roof is made of graduated greenslate, and there are painted ashlar chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has three bays, with a lower two-storey single-bay recessed extension to the left. The main entrance has a panelled door beneath a glazed fanlight, framed by an open-pedimented Tuscan doorcase. The windows are sash with glazing bars, set in painted stone surrounds, while the extension has tripartite casement windows.
Local climate
Burnfoot House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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