Woodside and Newtown Head is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. Houses.
Woodside and Newtown Head
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-timber-flax
- 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
- Houses
- Address
- Woodside and Newtown Head, Lowther, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 527 239
- Coordinates
- 54.60889, -2.73366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodside and Newtown Head is a pair of houses built in the early to mid-18th century. They feature roughcast walls topped with a graduated greenslate roof and have roughcast chimney stacks. The buildings are two storeys high, each with five bays under a common roof. Each house has a top-glazed panelled door set in a painted stone surround. The windows are casement style, with glazing bars, also framed in painted stone surrounds.
Local climate
Woodside and Newtown Head sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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