Summer House on Top of Flusco Pike is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. Folly.
Summer House on Top of Flusco Pike
- WRENN ID
- guardian-newel-crag
- 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
- Folly
- Address
- Summer House on Top of Flusco Pike, Dacre
- OS grid reference
- NY 464 285
- Coordinates
- 54.64943, -2.83135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The summer house on top of Flusco Pike is a folly built in the late 18th century for George Thompson. It features red sandstone rubble walls with flush quoins and a graduated greenslate roof with stone hips. This small square building has a stone-surround doorway, with plain reveals on the returns, although the joinery is missing from the openings. Inside, there is a small rear fireplace, but otherwise, the interior lacks features. It was likely used as a shepherd's bothy in the 19th century. Positioned at a high vantage point, it serves as a prominent feature in the landscape. The summer house is mentioned in W. Hutchinson's "History of Cumberland," published in 1794. At the time of the survey, it was derelict and unoccupied.
Local climate
Summer House on Top of Flusco Pike 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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