High College is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
High College
- WRENN ID
- crooked-lintel-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- High College, Kirkoswald, CA10 1DQ
- OS grid reference
- NY 555 412
- Coordinates
- 54.76425, -2.6931
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High College is a house built in the early 18th century for the Fetherstonhaugh family of The College, which is reflected in its name. The building features random red sandstone rubble walls and a graduated sandstone slate roof, with stone chimney stacks at both ends and on the ridge. It has two storeys and four bays. The entrance is a top-glazed six-panel door set in a plain chamfered stone surround. On either side of the door are double sash windows with glazing bars, which have chamfered stone mullions. The upper floor has sash windows with glazing bars in a hollow-chamfered surround. Inside, the house has panelled doors throughout, and a late 18th-century staircase with oak treads and turned balusters. The building was formerly the Doctor's house and still displays its red lamp on the west end wall.
Local climate
High College sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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 1997
- 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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