Summerdale House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1962. House. 1 related planning application.
Summerdale House
- WRENN ID
- errant-parapet-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- Summerdale House, A65, Preston Patrick, LA6 1PE
- OS grid reference
- SD 545 819
- Coordinates
- 54.23089, -2.69862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Summerdale House is a former vicarage, now a house, with a doorstep inscribed and dated 1734. The building was remodelled and extended to the right in the late 19th century and extended to the left in the 20th century. It features rubble walls that are partly rendered, with roughly-dressed limestone quoins and a graduated greenslate roof with a stone ridge. The house is two storeys high and has three windows, which are sashes with glazing bars.
The central entrance has a 20th-century glazed door with a decorative overlight, set within a 19th-century dressed limestone doorcase that includes pilasters and an entablature. All windows have stone lintels, and there is a cill band at the first floor. A moulded cornice with a cast-iron ogee gutter runs along the top, and there are two corniced chimneys at the ends. The right extension has two small casement windows and a single chimney.
The inscription on the doorstep features a compass with the words "EAST WEST NORTH'S BEST" surrounding it, and below that, "FOR QUIET ENJOYMENT MDCCXXXIV." Inside, there is late 19th-century woodwork and a staircase, while the 20th-century extension to the left is not of interest.
Local climate
Summerdale House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 1996
- 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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