Walnut House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Walnut House
- WRENN ID
- graven-vault-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Walnut House, Dacre, CA11 0ES
- OS grid reference
- NY 485 278
- Coordinates
- 54.6435, -2.79918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut House is a farmhouse dated 1754, with the initials WG Ag 55 and DG Ag 54 inscribed above the entrance. The building features pebble-dashed walls and a graduated greenslate roof with banded ashlar chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and has two bays. The entrance has a 20th-century panelled door set in a painted stone surround, which is framed by pilasters and a datestone. The windows are 20th-century casements within original painted chamfered surrounds, which likely were originally three-light windows with flat stone mullions. At the rear, a central doorway has been partly blocked to accommodate a casement window, and there are large flanking two-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows. The house has undergone some alterations in the 19th century.
Local climate
Walnut House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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