Cort House is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Cort House
- WRENN ID
- lost-lead-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cort House, Main Street, Arkholme-With-Cawood, LA6 1AX
- OS grid reference
- SD 586 719
- Coordinates
- 54.1413, -2.63383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cort House is a house built in 1700, which has been altered over time. It is constructed from slobbered rubble and has a slate roof. The building has two storeys and three bays. The windows are modern and have plain stone surrounds. The left-hand ground-floor window features three lights with flat-faced mullions. The central bay contains a door with a cyma-moulded surround, and above it is a sandstone flag that serves as a hood. The stonework shows remnants of a removed drip course and blocked mullioned windows. There are gable chimneys on the house.
Inside, the left-hand room features a firehood bressumer with a blocked mortise for a heck post. A spice cupboard with a panelled door is located in the gable wall. The current fireplace is from the 18th century and has a shouldered design, complete with a moulded cornice mantel and fielded panels on the lintel. In the loft, two elaborately shaped and moulded king-post trusses made from re-used cruck timber can be seen. One of these rises from a tie beam and has raking queen struts, while the other rises from a collar. Both trusses have empty mortises for braces to the ridge.
Local climate
Cort House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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