Birkdale Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. House.
Birkdale Hall
- WRENN ID
- endless-pavement-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Birkdale Hall, Castle Sowerby
- OS grid reference
- NY 375 428
- Coordinates
- 54.77629, -2.97181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birkdale Hall is a house dated 1678, as indicated by the inscription over the doorway, with 19th-century alterations. The building features painted rendered walls and a graduated greenslate roof, complemented by cement rendered ridge and gable chimney stacks. There is an extension with painted rubble walls also under a graduated greenslate roof.
The house is two storeys high and has five bays, along with a higher right-angled single-bay extension. A 20th-century porch covers the original entrance, which has the inscribed lintel. The right ground-floor windows are Yorkshire sashes set in chamfered painted surrounds beneath hoodmoulds, alongside a small chamfered-surround fire window. The other windows above and to the left are casements framed in 19th-century painted stone surrounds. The extension features a projecting gable with sash windows that have glazing bars, also in painted stone surrounds.
Local climate
Birkdale Hall 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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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