Hesket House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Hesket House
- WRENN ID
- eternal-vault-moss
- 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
- Hesket House, CA4 0HU
- OS grid reference
- NY 476 443
- Coordinates
- 54.79165, -2.8162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hesket House is an early 19th-century farmhouse featuring roughcast walls with V-jointed quoins set on a chamfered plinth. The building has a graduated greenslate roof topped with stone chimney stacks on brick bases. It stands two storeys high and consists of four bays. The entrance has a 20th-century door, with the fanlight removed, situated in a pilastered doorcase. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, framed by painted stone surrounds. The left and rear extensions of the house are not considered of interest.
Local climate
Hesket House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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