Low House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. House. 4 related planning applications.
Low House
- WRENN ID
- sheer-lantern-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Low House, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA23 1PF
- OS grid reference
- NY 407 025
- Coordinates
- 54.41508, -2.91431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low House is a 17th-century farmhouse, with a datestone of 1627. It is built of roughcast and scored stucco over stone rubble, with a slate roof and projecting square chimneys on brackets. The house is two storeys high and features small square windows. The front of the house, which faces the valley, has three windows on the ground floor and four above, each protected by a slate dripstone. A low staircase wing is located at the rear, set in the angle between the main wings. The property is part of a wider group of buildings of group value within Troutbeck Village.
Local climate
Low House 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
- 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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