Force Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. House.

Force Mill House

WRENN ID
hollow-brass-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Force Mill House, Great Salkeld
OS grid reference
NY 562 380
Coordinates
54.73537, -2.68116
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Force Mill House is a house associated with the nearby mill, dating from the early 18th century, with alterations and additions from the early 19th century. The building features whitewashed roughcast walls beneath a sandstone slate roof, complemented by sandstone rubble chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and consists of two bays, with a left projecting lean-to wash-house and a rear two-storey, single-bay extension.

The entrance is an off-centre 19th-century panelled door set in a chamfered stone surround. There is a 19th-century chamfered stone-mullioned window and an enlarged fire window, while the upper-floor sash windows, which are in smaller chamfered surrounds, appear to be from the 18th century. A small left window is a plain opening, and the wash-house features a front plank door in a plain opening. The extension includes a side plank door and a round-arched fixed casement window with glazing bars, along with a sash window with glazing bars, all framed in red sandstone surrounds. The ground-floor window has shutter hinge brackets.

Inside, the house has a beamed ceiling and a small 18th-century fireside cupboard, along with plank doors that have 18th-century hinges.

Local climate

Force Mill House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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