Blea Tarn House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
Blea Tarn House
- WRENN ID
- lesser-keystone-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blea Tarn House, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 9PG
- OS grid reference
- NY 294 048
- Coordinates
- 54.43392, -3.08848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blea Tarn House, formerly known as Blea Tarn Farmhouse, is a 17th-century building located in Great Langdale. It is constructed of white-washed stone rubble with thick walls and features a slate roof. The house has two low storeys and an open gabled porch that includes an inside slate bench, along with a smaller modern timber porch to the left. The building has three windows on the ground floor and four above, which are irregularly spaced and consist of casements and sashes. There are also three small squat chimneys.
Local climate
Blea Tarn House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,550 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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