Dove Nest is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. House. 16 related planning applications.
Dove Nest
- WRENN ID
- twisted-rood-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dove Nest, Windermere Road, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA23 1LR
- OS grid reference
- NY 383 025
- Coordinates
- 54.41466, -2.95076
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dove Nest is a building dating from 1780, located on Windermere Road in Ambleside. The poet Mrs. Hemans stayed here for the summer of 1830. The building has undergone some alterations in the 19th century. It features a roughcast exterior with deeply overhanging eaves and is two storeys high. The front facing the lake has a former doorway, now a window, with a stone architrave and cornice. There are two 12-paned sash windows on the ground floor and three above, along with a small sash window at the top of the gable. A gabled wing to the north has one sash window on each floor, while a gabled wing to the south includes a pointed arched porch and one sash window on each floor. The three gables are adorned with pierced 19th-century bargeboards. Inside, there is an 18th-century marble fireplace that was originally from Elleray.
Local climate
Dove Nest sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 16 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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