Oak Tree House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1984. House.
Oak Tree House
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-hammer-bracken
- 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
- House
- Address
- Oak Tree House, Main Street, Kirkby Thore
- OS grid reference
- NY 636 254
- Coordinates
- 54.623, -2.56508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Tree House is a house dated 1803, located on Main Street in Kirkby Thore. It is constructed from coursed sandstone blocks featuring herring-bone tooling. The front of the house has lintel bands on each floor and rusticated quoins. The roof is made of graduated slate, complete with stone copings, kneelers, and corniced end chimneys, and the eaves are moulded.
The house has a symmetrical, two-storey, three-bay front with a central panelled door and a rectangular fanlight set within a pedimented doorcase that has a frieze, although this has been somewhat damaged by the addition of a late 19th-century openwork iron porch. There are sash windows without glazing bars on either side of the door and three above, all framed in stone surrounds. A stair window at the rear features a semicircular head with interlaced glazing bars. Inside, the original window shutters and panelled doors are still present.
Local climate
Oak Tree House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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