Abbots Beck House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House. 2 related planning applications.
Abbots Beck House
- WRENN ID
- slow-ledge-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Abbots Beck House, Priory Close, Lower Allithwaite, LA11 6QQ
- OS grid reference
- SD 379 788
- Coordinates
- 54.2013, -2.95301
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbots Beck House is a house located in Cartmel, likely dating from the 17th century and built on medieval foundations. The exterior is roughcast stone with a slate roof and features a projecting wing next to Priory Close. The south elevation has two storeys and one bay, with a ground floor window that is a flat-mullioned cross window, a first-floor casement window, and a half-glazed door to the right. There is a cross-axial stack, and the return gable-end has small windows, including one in a stone surround in the attic. The north elevation includes a large lean-to outshut at the gable-end, with windows that have small-paned fixed glazing. The west elevation has two bays with sashed windows, a cross-axial stack, and an additional stack at the angle. The interior has not been inspected but is reported to include a medieval pointed doorway, which is part of the medieval Priory buildings.
Local climate
Abbots Beck House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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