Station 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. 4 related planning applications.
Station Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-cobalt-nettle
- 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
- Station Cottage, Claife, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 388 955
- Coordinates
- 54.35191, -2.94187
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Station Cottage is a late 18th-century building that originally served as a changing station for horses and is now used for storage. It features roughcast stone with a slate roof and stone rubble walls that enclose a front yard. The structure is one storey high and consists of four bays, with the first bay being recessed. The windows are fitted with casements. The entrance, located in the third bay, has a gabled porch and an inner studded door. There is a large cross-axial stack on the building. The wall to the right of the yard has crenellations and recessed crosses, as well as a round-headed arch. There is a 20th-century lean-to shed in the angle, likely replacing an earlier structure, and the wall in this area lacks crenellations. The front wall is low with crenellations but rises higher at the angle. Station Cottage is contemporary with The Station and is owned by The National Trust.
Local climate
Station Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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