The Nook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Cottage.
The Nook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-hall-stoat
- 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
- The Nook Cottage, Nook Lane, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 375 049
- Coordinates
- 54.43588, -2.96388
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nook Cottage is a building dated 1661 and 1818, located on Nook Lane in Ambleside. It features lime-washed roughcast over stone rubble and has a flag roof with two chimneys. The cottage is two storeys tall with long low proportions. At the center, there is a wide low porch that has a slate gable, an inner slate bench, and a segmental arched bargeboard. The ground floor has two windows, while the upper floor has five half-dormer windows, all of which are modern casements. The overall layout of the cottage is L-shaped.
Local climate
The Nook 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- No related consent applications matched
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