No. 1 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. House.
No. 1 High Street
- WRENN ID
- guardian-entrance-bracken
- 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
- House
- Address
- No. 1 High Street, Windermere, Westmorland and Furness, LA23 1AF
- OS grid reference
- SD 412 986
- Coordinates
- 54.37999, -2.90571
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 1 High Street is a building from 1859, originally constructed as a private house. It features local dry stone walling made from slate, with quoins and a slate roof. The building has two storeys and dormers, and the gables are adorned with pierced ornamental bargeboards. Notable architectural elements include a two-storeyed wooden bay window, a door with Gothic glazing and Tuscan jambs, and a pointed arched Gothic window above the door, which has cusped tracery in two lights. This property is adjacent to No. 2 Victorian Street.
Local climate
No. 1 High Street 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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