Malthouse in Grounds of Shepherd's Hill is a Grade II* listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1983. A Georgian Malthouse.
Malthouse in Grounds of Shepherd's Hill
- WRENN ID
- endless-attic-coral
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1983
- Type
- Malthouse
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Malthouse in Grounds of Shepherd's Hill, Stricklandgate, Penrith
- OS grid reference
- NY 512 304
- Coordinates
- 54.66714, -2.75776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The malthouse in the grounds of Shepherd's Hill is a possibly 18th-century rectangular building made of white-washed stone with a stone roof and a square louvred ventilator. The exterior is plain, but the interior is noteworthy, featuring a well, a large stone trough, a furnace with iron doors, a pierced drying floor above, and distinctive intersecting brick arches that create the vaulting of the ground floor. Above, there is a king post roof.
Local climate
Malthouse in Grounds of Shepherd's Hill 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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