Boot House and Whillanside is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1985. A Georgian House. 1 related planning application.

Boot House and Whillanside

WRENN ID
outer-plaster-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1985
Type
House
Period
Georgian
Address
Boot House and Whillanside, Eskdale, Cumberland, CA19 1TG
OS grid reference
NY 176 011
Coordinates
54.39879, -3.26981
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Boot House and Whillanside is a house and adjoining outbuilding, now functioning as two houses, dating from the 18th century with later alterations. The structure is built of wet-dashed rubble and features a graduated slate roof, with stone ridge and rendered brick end chimneys. It stands two storeys high and has four bays.

Boot House, located on the left, has a panelled door set within a gabled wooden porch, with a sash window to the left and a small fixed window to the right; there are two sash windows above. Whillanside, on the right, features a plank door with a segment-headed window (which may have replaced a door) to the right, and two sash windows above. The interior of Boot House includes beamed ceilings, including a fire beam.

Local climate

Boot House and Whillanside sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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