Servants' Wing North West of High Head Castle Eighteenth Century Wing is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. Wing.

Servants' Wing North West of High Head Castle Eighteenth Century Wing

WRENN ID
empty-rood-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1986
Type
Wing
Address
Servants' Wing North West of High Head Castle Eighteenth Century Wing, Skelton
OS grid reference
NY 402 433
Coordinates
54.78147, -2.93038
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Servants' Wing, located northwest of High Head Castle, is an 18th-century structure. It is built of dressed red sandstone with flush quoins and features a graduated greenslate roof, complete with coped gables and ball finials. The building has banded red sandstone ashlar chimney stacks and consists of two storeys with four bays. The windows are sash style with glazing bars set in plain reveals. The right side of the building has a 20th-century door in a plain opening, while the left side features a round opening on the upper floor. The rear wall is blank but includes a central open pediment. This wing is listed for its group value with the 18th-century wing of High Head Castle.

Local climate

Servants' Wing North West of High Head Castle Eighteenth Century Wing sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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