Ashton Cottage, Little Beck and Raesbeck is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Cottage.
Ashton Cottage, Little Beck and Raesbeck
- WRENN ID
- silent-sentry-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ashton Cottage, Little Beck and Raesbeck, Fair View Road, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 377 046
- Coordinates
- 54.43313, -2.96083
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashton Cottage, located on Fair View Road in Raesbeck, is a late 17th century small stone cottage featuring an old flag roof. The building has modern doors with gable hoods and stands two storeys tall. The front of Raesbeck includes two 16-paned sash windows on the ground floor and three above. Ashton Cottage has two small square windows on each floor, although the glazing bars have been removed. Little Beck serves as the rear wing of Raesbeck. Ashton Cottage is part of a group that includes The Cottage, Fairview Cottage, Nos 3 to 6 (consecutive), Raesbeck, Little Beck, and Ashton Cottage, along with St Anne's Court, Ash Tree Cottage, Old School House, and Nos 1 to 5 (consecutive) and the barn attached to Old School House on Chapel Hill.
Local climate
Ashton Cottage, Little Beck and Raesbeck 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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