Oak House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House.
Oak House
- WRENN ID
- endless-grate-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oak House, Wetheral
- OS grid reference
- NY 475 546
- Coordinates
- 54.88386, -2.81931
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak House is a house dating from the early 19th century. It features dressed sandstone walls with large quoins and a hipped slate roof, complemented by brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The entrance includes a four-panelled door with a plain surround and a moulded cornice supported by console brackets. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, also have plain surrounds. A string course runs along the upper floor at sill level, and there is a moulded and dentilled cornice above.
Local climate
Oak House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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