Ghyll Head Cottage and the Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1987. Houses. 1 related planning application.
Ghyll Head Cottage and the Homestead
- WRENN ID
- stranded-jamb-river
- 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
- Houses
- Address
- Ghyll Head Cottage and the Homestead, Ghyll Head Road, Cartmel Fell, Westmorland and Furness, LA23 3LN
- OS grid reference
- SD 393 927
- Coordinates
- 54.32705, -2.93398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ghyll Head Cottage and The Homestead are two houses, dated 1749 as indicated by a datestone, with later additions. The houses are constructed of roughcast stone with a slate roof. They are two storeys high and consist of three bays, the first bay forming Ghyll Head Cottage. The windows are casement windows; the ground floor window of the second bay has a fire window to the left, and the first floor window of the first bay is a sash window with glazing bars and an opening pane. Entrances are located in the first bay and between the second and third bays. A datestone is also situated in the second bay. Gable-end stacks are present, with the right-hand stack projecting and featuring offsets, and a cross-axial stack with a round shaft. The rear of the building features a gabled wing with a gable-end stack and a stair wing to the left, which has a catslide roof.
Local climate
Ghyll Head Cottage and the Homestead 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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