Lake Cottage Lake House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Boathouse, cottage.

Lake Cottage Lake House

WRENN ID
young-latch-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1960
Type
Boathouse, cottage
Address
Lake Cottage Lake House, Corsham
OS grid reference
ST 883 703
Coordinates
51.43246, -2.16893
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lake House, formerly known as Lake Cottage, is a boathouse with an attached cottage dating from around 1800, attributed to the architect John Nash. The building is constructed of rubble stone and features a stone-tiled roof, rising to one and a half storeys.

The west end, facing the lake, has a broad low arched opening at the base and a 3-light, 2-transom window above it. The central light of this window has a pointed head and is adorned with a hoodmould. On the south side, there are two charming eyebrow eaves dormers; one contains iron casements while the other features stone Y-tracery. Additionally, there are two ground floor 2-light mullion windows with hoodmoulds, although one pair of these windows is blank.

The east end showcases a large porch with a weatherboarded gable, and above it is a twelve-pane window. On the north side, there is a 2-light bead-moulded window situated above a Tudor-arched doorway that leads to a brick-vaulted boathouse. To the right of this doorway, there is a lean-to structure.

Local climate

Lake Cottage Lake House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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