Lightwood Cottage and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1987. House, barn.
Lightwood Cottage and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- narrow-timber-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1987
- Type
- House, barn
- OS grid reference
- SD 408 890
- Coordinates
- 54.29362, -2.91002
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lightwood Cottage and the adjoining barn are likely from the 18th century. The cottage is built of stone rubble with a roughcast finish and has slate roofs. It is two storeys high and has three bays, with the first bay probably added later. There is a dripcourse above the first and second bays. The first bay features windows with small-paned fixed glazing and opening lights, while the other windows are sashed with vertical glazing bars and horns. The entrance has a flat-roofed trellis porch and a door with four fielded panels. There is a stack at the gable end, and the left side has a small entrance beneath a dripstone. The rear of the cottage includes three windows, one of which is a two-light wooden mullioned window.
The barn is taller than the cottage and has an entrance and a window, with a blocked winnowing door above. There are also blocked square ventilation holes. A gable-end stack is located next to the house. The right side of the barn features an entrance with a cambered wood lintel and a dripcourse, while the rear has barn doors set in cheeks.
Local climate
Lightwood Cottage and Adjoining Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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