Bank Cottage and Relish is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. A Late C18 Shop, house. 7 related planning applications.
Bank Cottage and Relish
- WRENN ID
- eternal-mullion-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- Shop, house
- Address
- Bank Cottage and Relish, 2, the Square, Hawkshead, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 0NZ
- OS grid reference
- SD 352 981
- Coordinates
- 54.3747, -2.99885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bank Cottage and Relish is a shop and house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone and has a slate roof. The building stands three storeys high and features four bays. On the ground floor, there are casement windows in the second bay, and paired sash windows with single glazing bars in the third and fourth bays. There are entrances in the second and fourth bays, which include a 20th-century stable door and a glazed door. The first floor has a casement window in the first bay, while the third and fourth bays have sash windows with glazing bars. The second floor contains three windows with horizontally sliding sashes. A lateral stack is located in the first bay. The left return, adjacent to the King's Arms, consists of three bays. The ground floor features a small-paned casement window, garage doors, and a stable door to the left. The first floor has casement windows, and the second floor has two horizontally sliding sashes. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Bank Cottage and Relish sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% 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 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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