Laburnum Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
Laburnum Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-basalt-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laburnum Cottage, Satterthwaite, Westmorland and Furness, LA12 8LR
- OS grid reference
- SD 338 924
- Coordinates
- 54.32321, -3.01862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laburnum Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century or 18th century. It features a roughcast exterior and a slate roof, standing two storeys tall. The east elevation has five bays, with the end two bays being recessed and higher than the others. On the ground floor, the first bay has a window with a horizontally sliding sash, the third bay has a casement window and a fire window to its right, while the fourth and fifth bays have windows with small-paned fixed glazing, the fifth bay's window featuring a dripstone. The first floor includes a casement window in the first bay and windows with small-paned fixed glazing that have pivoted upper halves in the second and third bays. There is a gable-end stack and a cross-axial stack to the left of the raised roof over the fourth bay, with the entrance located in the second bay. The south gable-end has a ground floor window with small-paned fixed glazing and a casement window on the first floor. The west elevation has a small two-storey wing with a gable-end stack and a lean-to porch in the re-entrant angle to the right. To the left, there is a canted lean-to stair wing with a small light and casement windows. Inside, the cottage features two upper cruck trusses with spurs, chamfered beams, a spice cupboard, and a spiral stair.
Local climate
Laburnum Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,570 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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