Knotts Farmhouse Cottage with Attached Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. A C18 Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Knotts Farmhouse Cottage with Attached Buildings
- WRENN ID
- north-step-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1973
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Knotts Farmhouse Cottage with Attached Buildings, LA23 1NL
- OS grid reference
- NY 406 002
- Coordinates
- 54.39405, -2.91531
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knotts Farmhouse Cottage with Attached Buildings is an early 18th-century farmhouse located on Patteredale Road. The cottage is constructed of lime-washed stone rubble, with a graded slate roof and sits upon large boulders. A slate dripstone protects the ground-floor windows. The south side features two 3-light wood mullioned windows on each floor, which are relatively modern. Attached to the west end is a barn building in an L-shaped plan. The barn includes an older 25-paned window, a ramped entrance, and arrow slits. The rear elevation has small square windows. Inside, a cupboard is marked with the date 1688.
Local climate
Knotts Farmhouse Cottage with Attached Buildings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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