Slack House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1975. House. 3 related planning applications.
Slack House
- WRENN ID
- deep-frieze-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Slack House, Windermere Road, Grange-Over-Sands, LA11 6JT
- OS grid reference
- SD 410 790
- Coordinates
- 54.20409, -2.9057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Slack House is a house, probably built in the mid-19th century, with later additions from the 19th century. The exterior is pebbledashed with dressings of water-worn limestone and features a slate roof. The house has two storeys and the original part consists of a three-window range. The first-floor windows are glazing bar sashes with plain reveals, projecting sills, and limestone lintels. On the ground floor, there is a gabled porch on the right side and paired sash windows without glazing bars on the left. The open timber porch has carved bargeboards and covers glazed double doors with margin panes.
To the east, there is a taller one-bay addition that features windows with water-worn rusticated limestone surrounds, a first-floor sill band, and pronounced gables with decorative bargeboarding. This addition has a casement window on the ground floor and a glazing bar sash on the first floor. The right-hand return wall of this addition is similarly styled but includes a timber canted bay window on the ground floor. There are chimneys located to the left and right of the original house as well as on the rear wall of the addition.
Local climate
Slack House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 4 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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