Thistlewood House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1967. House.
Thistlewood House
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-terrace-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 December 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thistlewood House, Castle Sowerby
- OS grid reference
- NY 396 436
- Coordinates
- 54.7838, -2.94056
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thistlewood House is an early 19th-century house built of dressed red sandstone. It features decorative eaves modillions and V-jointed quoins set on a chamfered plinth. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and has coped gables along with dressed red sandstone chimney stacks. The house has two storeys and consists of two bays, with a lower two-storey single-bay extension on the right side. The entrance includes a recessed panelled door situated within an Ionic prostyle porch. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, framed in painted stone surrounds. Above the door, there is a panel without inscription, set under a shouldered architrave and a shaped hood. The extension includes a three-light bay window beneath a sash window with glazing bars. A farm extension at the rear is not of interest.
Local climate
Thistlewood House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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