Wordsworth House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. House. 6 related planning applications.
Wordsworth House
- WRENN ID
- hidden-ember-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wordsworth House, Sockbridge and Tirril, CA10 2JT
- OS grid reference
- NY 499 268
- Coordinates
- 54.63461, -2.77611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wordsworth House is a house dated and inscribed with "R&ED 1699" (Reginald & Elizabeth Dobson) above the entrance. It features painted stucco walls with a string course, eaves cornice, and V-jointed quoins set on a chamfered plinth. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and has banded stucco chimney stacks. The house is two storeys high with four bays and includes a right-angled single-storey, two-bay extension. The entrance has a centre top-glazed panelled door framed by a bolection architrave. The windows are cross-mullioned and set in stone architraves. The extension features a door and a sash window in painted stone surrounds, all within an overall glass porch. Inside, the ground floor has late 17th-century panelling, wall cupboards, panelled doors, and beamed ceilings. There is also a late 17th-century staircase with twist balusters.
Local climate
Wordsworth House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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 — 6 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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