Turbine House to South of Crackenthorpe Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1984. Turbine-house.

Turbine House to South of Crackenthorpe Hall

WRENN ID
twisted-quartz-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 April 1984
Type
Turbine-house
OS grid reference
NY 662 215
Coordinates
54.58778, -2.52372
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The turbine house, dated 1912, is located to the south of Crackenthorpe Hall. It is constructed from snecked, squared rubble with quoins and features a graduated slate roof with projecting eaves. The building has two storeys and is positioned across a small stream, with the entrance at the upper level. Above the door, there is a panel displaying a coat of arms, which is set beneath a pointed hoodmould. Each side wall and the end wall have a single two-light mullioned window. On the west side, there is an initialled datestone in Roman numerals set into the wall below the window. This structure is an early example of a purpose-built facility for the private generation of electricity by turbine, although the machinery is no longer in place.

Local climate

Turbine House to South of Crackenthorpe Hall 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 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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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