Curlew Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. House. 1 related planning application.
Curlew Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-alcove-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Curlew Cottage, Askham, Westmorland and Furness, CA10 2PG
- OS grid reference
- NY 511 236
- Coordinates
- 54.60586, -2.75839
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Curlew Cottage is a house, dating from the early 18th century, with later additions. A stone inscribed "I & MA/1724" indicates the original construction date. The house is built of rough-cast stone and has a slate roof. It is two storeys high and originally had six bays, though the 5th and 6th bays are likely later additions or conversions from an outbuilding. The window openings are varied in size and style; the ground floor has a large window with small panes in the 2nd bay, smaller windows in the flanking bays, a narrow window with chamfered reveals in the 3rd bay, and a square window in the 5th bay. The first floor has square windows to the first four bays, with chamfered reveals to the windows in the first two bays, and larger windows in the end two bays. All windows have casements. The entrance is a glazed door in the 4th bay, and a garage door is located in the 6th bay. The house has a gable-end stack and a cross-axial stack.
Local climate
Curlew Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- 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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