Pillar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House. 1 related planning application.
Pillar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-marble-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pillar Cottage, Church Hill, Hawkshead, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 0PQ
- OS grid reference
- SD 351 981
- Coordinates
- 54.37427, -2.99943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pillar Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century or early 18th century, constructed with roughcast and a slate roof, featuring some slate hanging. The building is two storeys high and has two bays. The first bay has a deeply jettied first floor supported by a stone pier and an iron column, topped with a gable. The ground floor includes casement windows, with two in the second bay that appear to cut through a blocked earlier window. The window in the first bay on the first floor has small-paned fixed glazing, while the second bay features a tripartite sash window with glazing bars. There is an entrance to the first bay and a separate entrance up steps to the first floor of the first bay, which has a half-glazed door. The gable end has a stack for the chimney. The left side of the jetty is slate hung. At the rear, there is a wing with casement windows, one located under a drip course, a slate lean-to porch in the angle, and a corbelled gable-end stack.
Local climate
Pillar 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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- 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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