Bridge House Gate Bridge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. A Early Modern House, cottage.
Bridge House Gate Bridge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-wattle-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1967
- Type
- House, cottage
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Bridge House Gate Bridge Cottage, Caldbeck, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 323 397
- Coordinates
- 54.74792, -3.05213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridge House and Gate Bridge Cottage is a house with a rear extension that is now a separate cottage. The building is dated 1718 and inscribed over the entrance with "T & B B" for Thomas and Barbara Backhouse. It features painted stucco with an eaves cornice and raised V-jointed quoins, topped by a graduated greenslate roof with brick chimney stacks. The structure is two storeys high and has three bays, with a lower two-bay cottage to the right rear.
The entrance includes a top-glazed four-panel door set in a bolection surround, topped by a swan-neck pediment that encloses the date and inscription. The windows are sash style, framed in painted stone architraves. The extension has a round-arched sash staircase window with glazing bars and a smaller square sash window to the right. Gate Bridge Cottage continues under a common roof, and there is a lean-to extension that features a four-panel side door with a 20th-century lattice porch and small sash windows in painted stone surrounds.
This building was once home to Woodcock Graves, the writer of the song "D'ye ken John Peel."
Local climate
Bridge House Gate Bridge Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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