Some of Britain's most significant sites are at risk of damage from coastal erosion and flooding.
After severe weather in 2009, damage was caused to Wordsworth House and Garden, costing £500,000 and three years to repair. This work was then undone by more severe weather in 2015.
Wildlife is also being directly affected, as warmer weather is seeing salmon disappear from rivers and birds are no longer visiting important wetlands.
"It is clear our winters are generally getting warmer and wetter, storms are increasing in intensity and rainfall is becoming heavier. Climate change is not only coming home – it has arrived." Professor Piers Forster of Leeds University said.
Records stretching back one century show the UK is experiencing heavier rainfall during winter. As illustration of the severity of the impacts in comparison to more "ordinary" years, the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs, in particular the Birling Gap, experienced the equivalent of seven years of erosion within two months during the winter storms of 2013-14.
The report also warns that the 5,000-year-old neolithic village at Skara Brae on Orkney, revealed after a great storm in 1850 stripped away grass and sand, could be destroyed in future as violent storms become more common.
