Bank House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1983. House. 2 related planning applications.
Bank House
- WRENN ID
- low-pavement-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bank House, Foster Street, Penrith, CA11 7PD
- OS grid reference
- NY 511 306
- Coordinates
- 54.66837, -2.75962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bank House is an early 18th-century building located on Foster Street. It features pebbledash over stone, with stone architraves and a stone roof at the rear. The building is two storeys high. The door lintel has a panel that likely once displayed a date, but this is now illegible. There are two double sash windows on the ground floor and three sash windows above.
Local climate
Bank House 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- 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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