Hay Carr Cottage (Northern House) is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. A 1687, altered C19th and C20th House.
Hay Carr Cottage (Northern House)
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-floor-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hay Carr Cottage (Northern House), Ellel
- OS grid reference
- SD 486 529
- Coordinates
- 53.96978, -2.78466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hay Carr Cottage, also known as the northern house, is a house built in 1687, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed from sandstone rubble and features a slate roof. The cottage has two storeys and two bays. The windows are mullioned, rebated, and chamfered, except for the left-hand first-floor window, which is only chamfered. Some of the windows have been re-tooled. The ground floor windows consist of three lights, while the first-floor windows have two lights. The entrance door, located between the two bays, is set within a wide modern stone porch and has a cyma-moulded surround with a shaped lintel inscribed with '1687 P/WS'. A chimney is situated on the right-hand (east) gable. The left-hand gable wall features a three-light rebated and chamfered mullioned window on the first floor, and at the rear of the cottage, there is a five-light mullioned window.
Local climate
Hay Carr Cottage (Northern House) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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