Chapel Cottage Chapel House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. House and cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Chapel Cottage Chapel House
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-roof-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- House and cottage
- Address
- Chapel Cottage Chapel House, Bassenthwaite, Cumberland, CA12 4QH
- OS grid reference
- NY 227 316
- Coordinates
- 54.67401, -3.19931
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel House and Chapel Cottage are a house and cottage dating from the early 19th century. The main house features incised stucco with angle pilasters and is topped with a hipped graduated greenslate roof, which includes ashlar chimney stacks. Chapel Cottage has painted roughcast walls and also has a greenslate roof with ashlar chimney stacks. The building stands two storeys tall and consists of three bays, with the lower two-storey, two-bay cottage positioned at a right angle to the rear of the house. There is a top-glazed panelled door set within a prostyle Tuscan porch. The house has sash windows framed in painted stone surrounds. Chapel Cottage features a panelled door and sash windows with glazing bars, also in painted stone surrounds.
Local climate
Chapel Cottage Chapel House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- 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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