Brackenburgh is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
Brackenburgh
- WRENN ID
- hidden-gutter-rain
- 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
- Brackenburgh, Hesket, CA11 9PW
- OS grid reference
- NY 475 384
- Coordinates
- 54.73798, -2.81557
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brackenburgh is a house that has been divided into two dwellings. It features an inscription and coat-of-arms belonging to Joseph Harris, stating "MY PRINCE AND MY COUNTRY," and is dated 1902. The house was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer and underwent minor alterations in the 1960s, including the demolition of a servants' wing. The exterior is made of dressed cream Lazonby sandstone, with parapets and flush quoins. The roof is covered with graduated greenslate and has banded ashlar sandstone chimney stacks.
This large country house is two storeys high and has an L-shape with numerous bays. The garden facade includes, from left to right, a projecting dining room, a music room, and a hall, with a round-arched loggia in front of the boudoir. The right-angled office range on the right is now a separate property. The house features various large transomed and mullioned windows, including some canted bay windows.
On the rear entrance facade, there are five high projecting central bays. The left side, which was originally a billiard room, has been converted into a garage, while the right three-bay section now has blank walls due to the demolition of a projecting wing. The left side has double plank doors set in a round arch beneath a crested coat-of-arms, with pilasters extending to a string course above an oriel window flanked by lions, all under a shell hood. The facade also includes a large transomed and mullioned window, additional doorways, and 2-light windows on three levels. There is a polygonal angle turret on the left and various mullioned windows on two levels. The right wing features 2- and 4-light windows. An orangery connects Brackenburgh with The Old Tower.
Local climate
Brackenburgh 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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