Nook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Nook Cottage

WRENN ID
young-pier-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 November 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
Nook Cottage, Underbarrow and Bradleyfield, Westmorland and Furness, LA8 8HJ
OS grid reference
SD 465 924
Coordinates
54.3244, -2.8236
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nook Cottage is a 17th-century cottage, with a datestone of 1629 reset on a porch that is believed to be a 20th-century addition. The cottage has rubble walls, finished with a whitewash, and a slate roof with a stone ridge and stone end chimneys featuring slate drip stones; the left hand chimney is round. The cottage is two storeys high, with a central entrance door featuring studs. There is a casement window to the left and a six-pane sash window to the right. Above, there is a small casement window and a four-pane sash window. The interior includes old panelling, reportedly added around 1949.

Local climate

Nook Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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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