Empire House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. House.
Empire House
- WRENN ID
- hushed-stone-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Empire House, 52, Market Street, Dalton Town with Newton
- OS grid reference
- SD 228 740
- Coordinates
- 54.15602, -3.18285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Empire House is a house located on Market Street in Dalton in Furness, dating from the mid to late 18th century. The building is constructed of roughcast stone and features a graduated slate roof. It is two storeys high with two windows on the first floor, and an added bay on the left side. The house has a cemented plinth and a six-panelled door set in a stone surround beneath a cornice supported by shaped brackets. On each floor, there are 16-pane sash windows on either side of the door, each with projecting sills and moulded architraves. The end stacks made of coursed limestone are of a later date. The left end bay includes a square-headed carriage entrance and has higher eaves but a lower roof pitch. Inside, there are six-panel pine doors and panelled window shutters. The ground floor left features an 18th-century stone fireplace with an architrave, corbels, a pulvinated frieze, and a cornice.
Local climate
Empire House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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