Haverthwaite House and Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House.
Haverthwaite House and Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-stone-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Haverthwaite House and Cottage, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 340 839
- Coordinates
- 54.24684, -3.01316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Haverthwaite House and Cottage is a building that has been converted into two houses. The fireplace in the house is dated 1734. The structure is made of roughcast stone and has slate roofs. It is two storeys high with five bays, while the Cottage has two bays, is recessed, and is lower in height. The windows are sashed with single glazing bars, most of which have horns. The central entrance features a six-panel door, which includes two flush panels, two fielded panels, and two glazed panels, topped by a flat canopy supported by shaped brackets. There are gable-end stacks. The Cottage has casement windows and a plain entrance, along with a tall gable-end stack. The rear of the building has casement windows, and the stair windows have wooden cross-mullioned frames. The lower part of the upper windows features leaded glazing with rectangular quarries.
Inside, there is a partition to the right of the entrance with fielded panels, a dado rail, and a cornice. Corresponding panelling is later and blocks the original two-panel kitchen door. The interior includes ovolo beams and a stone fireplace with a moulded opening and a corbelled lintel. Field panels flank a frieze that features a date and the initials 'IR' above. The grate has fire dogs and flanking stone human masks, along with a crane and a spice cupboard with a door. Another room contains a round-headed niche with shelves that have shaped edges. A two-panel door with H-L hinges leads to a dog-leg stair with square newels and a moulded handrail, but no balusters.
Local climate
Haverthwaite House and Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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