Rutherford House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1983. House.
Rutherford House
- WRENN ID
- heavy-belfry-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rutherford House, Robinson Street, Penrith, CA11 9HR
- OS grid reference
- NY 510 308
- Coordinates
- 54.67055, -2.76116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rutherford House is an early 19th-century building that has been converted into two dwellings, including Inglewood House. The exterior features scored stucco applied over stone, with stone quoins, a band, and a plinth. It has an old slate roof with stone chimneys. The central entrance consists of a modern door set above four stone steps, flanked by fluted attached half-columns and topped with a semi-circular fanlight that has iron glazing bars, all within a plain round arch. The building has two sash windows on the ground floor and three on the upper floor, all set in plain stone architraves.
Local climate
Rutherford House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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