Wee Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Wee Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallen-foundation-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wee Cottage, Vicarage Lane, Hawkshead, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 0PB
- OS grid reference
- SD 351 981
- Coordinates
- 54.3746, -3.00024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wee Cottage is a house that likely dates from the mid to late 18th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone with slate hanging and has a slate roof. The building has three storeys and one bay. On the ground floor, there is a through passage and a recess with stone steps leading to the entrance, which features a six-panel door. The first floor includes a small-paned 20th-century top-hung casement window, while the second floor has small-paned fixed glazing with an opening casement. There is a gable-end stack, and at the rear, there is a two-storey lean-to outshut with small-paned casements. Wee Cottage is owned by the National Trust.
Local climate
Wee Cottage 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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