Mellguards 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.
Mellguards
- WRENN ID
- moated-wall-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Mellguards, Hesket, CA4 0LE
- OS grid reference
- NY 444 460
- Coordinates
- 54.80603, -2.86502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mellguards is a late 18th or early 19th century farmhouse. It has painted stucco walls with vertically jointed quoins, beneath a roof covered with graduated greenslate tiles and coped gables. The building has been re-built with brick chimney stacks. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has four bays. A 20th-century door is positioned centrally, set within a shouldered architrave and a pediment. The windows are sash windows, set within painted stone architraves, and the ground-floor windows are double-hung.
Local climate
Mellguards sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 2006
- 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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