Abbey Vale is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. Residential lodge. 4 related planning applications.
Abbey Vale
- WRENN ID
- leaning-stone-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- Residential lodge
- Address
- Abbey Vale, Abbey Approach, LA13 0PJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 218 719
- Coordinates
- 54.13776, -3.19747
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Vale is a former Porter's Lodge, now a house, built in 1873 by the architectural firm Paley and Austin for the Furness Railway Company at Furness Abbey Station. The building has an irregular plan and is constructed from snecked red sandstone, topped with a renewed tile roof. It is a single-storey structure featuring a semi-octagonal center flanked by side wings and a 20th-century addition at the rear.
On the west side, there is an open-sided wooden porch with a catslide roof that shelters a doorway adorned with a date and initials on a decorated lintel. The semi-octagon is illuminated by cross windows with leaded lights set in moulded ashlar surrounds, topped by a string course. The hipped roof has oversailing eaves and a three-flue ashlar stack on a shared base. The lower side wing to the west features a battered embankment wall and a gabled half-dormer above a three-light mullioned window on the left return, with a lean-to on the right return. An embankment wing wall connects to an adjoining gateway and a bridge over Mill Beck. A plaque on the building reads 'PORTERS LODGE'.
Abbey Vale is designated at Grade II due to its architectural interest, being well-designed with attractive details, and its group value as part of a multi-period site that includes the ruins of Furness Abbey and several other listed buildings associated with the railway.
Local climate
Abbey Vale sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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