Holme House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1957. Farmhouse.
Holme House
- WRENN ID
- eternal-spire-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1957
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Holme House, B6263, Wetheral
- OS grid reference
- NY 448 527
- Coordinates
- 54.86619, -2.86018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holme House is a farmhouse dated 1778, featuring the initials T.B. It is constructed from dressed red sandstone with a graduated slate roof and has brick and stone chimney stacks. The building stands two storeys high and consists of five bays. The entrance is prominently adorned with a heavily moulded, ornamented, and dentilled surround made of white sandstone, topped with a dated pediment and a panelled door. The sash windows, which include glazing bars, have plain surrounds. Notable architectural details include a chamfered plinth course, raised quoins, string courses at the sill levels, a moulded cornice with a parapet, and coped gables. The listing does not include any associated farm buildings.
Local climate
Holme 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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