Burbank House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1967. Grammar school.
Burbank House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-buttress-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 December 1967
- Type
- Grammar school
- Address
- Burbank House, Dacre
- OS grid reference
- NY 455 327
- Coordinates
- 54.6864, -2.84605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burbank House is a former grammar school that was converted into a private house in 1793. The building features mixed sandstone and limestone rubble walls, with an eaves cornice and V-jointed quoins set on a chamfered plinth. It has a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers, an open bellcote on the gable, and banded ashlar chimney stacks. The house is two storeys high and consists of six bays, along with a single-storey, single-bay kitchen extension on the right.
The entrance is marked by an off-centre panelled door with an intersecting glazing-bar fanlight, all framed by an alternate-block surround with a round arch. To the extreme left, there is another doorway that also features an alternate-block surround and a reused lintel from the earlier school, inscribed with "THOMAS BURBANK 1577" and a Latin tag. The ground-floor sash windows have intersecting glazing-bar heads within round-headed stone surrounds, while the upper floor has similar sash windows with glazing bars in stone surrounds, but with flat heads.
The stone bellcote has open-arched sides beneath a pyramidal roof topped with a greyhound vane. The kitchen extension has a blank front wall and details that match the main house. On the left return wall, there is a 20th-century garage door beneath a blocked Venetian window, flanked by round-headed windows. The upper floor features flat-headed sash windows with glazing bars, along with an oval window and blocked small square attic windows. At the rear, there is a single-storey extension that maintains similar details. The central window is round-headed, while the rest are flat-headed sashes with glazing bars. Burbank House was endowed as a school in 1577 and closed around 1919.
Local climate
Burbank 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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