Toll Bar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1977. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Toll Bar Cottage

WRENN ID
lone-marble-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 May 1977
Type
Cottage
Address
Toll Bar Cottage, Chestnut Hill, Keswick, Cumberland
OS grid reference
NY 278 232
Coordinates
54.59913, -3.11874
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Toll Bar Cottage is a late 18th century building made of stone and slate, featuring a slate roof. It is situated on a hillside and has one and two storeys. The cottage has casement windows with small panes. There is a polygonal projection with a pyramidal roof, which includes a blocked round-arched window on the ground floor and a small window above it, as well as a casement window on the ground floor on each side. Flanking the main structure are single-storey wings with catslide roofs.

Local climate

Toll Bar Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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