Fold Head is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. House. 2 related planning applications.
Fold Head
- WRENN ID
- burning-spandrel-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fold Head, Fallbarrow Road, Windermere, Westmorland and Furness, LA23 3DJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 402 970
- Coordinates
- 54.36551, -2.92125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fold Head is a building located on Fallbarrow Road in Bowness, dating back to 1834. It is constructed from white-washed stone rubble and features an old slate roof, rising to two low storeys. The front has a modern door with a small solid fanlight and a gable hood, along with an inscribed round-topped datestone that reads, "Reginald Shephard built this house in the year and don 1751." There are two new cross windows on each floor set in older square openings. At the rear, there is a wooden oriel and a deep rectangular bay window. Fold Head, along with nearby buildings such as White House, Robinson Place, New Hall Inn, Lowside, and others, forms an important group in the village centre, alongside the Parish Church of St Martin on Lake Road and several businesses on Church Street.
Local climate
Fold Head sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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 — 2 applications
- 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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