Castle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Castle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- over-foundation-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Castle Cottage, Claife, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 0LF
- OS grid reference
- SD 370 956
- Coordinates
- 54.35282, -2.96929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Cottage is a house located in Claife near Sawrey, likely built in the 18th century with alterations and additions made around 1913. The building is constructed of roughcast stone and features a slate roof. The south facade has five bays, with the fifth bay projecting under a gable. The first two bays have a drip course, while the third and fourth bays are covered by a lean-to timber verandah. The windows are sash style, with single glazing bars and horns; the window between the first and second bays was probably originally an entrance. The ground floor of the third and fourth bays has French windows, and the fifth bay includes a two-storey canted bay window. There is a gable-end stack and two cross-axial stacks. The rear of the house has two wings with lean-to outshuts. The west facade features a door with a window beneath a dripstone, along with an entrance that has a gabled porch. This cottage was the home of Beatrix Potter after her marriage to William Heelis in 1913 and is currently owned by the National Trust.
Local climate
Castle 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
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- 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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