Tongue House, Attached Barn and Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. House, cottage, barn. 2 related planning applications.
Tongue House, Attached Barn and Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-column-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- House, cottage, barn
- Address
- Tongue House, Attached Barn and Cottage, Matterdale, Westmorland and Furness, CA11 0LT
- OS grid reference
- NY 433 242
- Coordinates
- 54.61024, -2.87806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tongue House, attached barn, and cottage is a house, cottage, and outbuilding dating from 1746, as indicated by an inscribed lintel. The structure is built of roughcast stone with a slate roof and is arranged in an L-plan over two storeys. The south range consists of six bays, with the fifth and sixth bays being later additions, and there is a wing from the 18th to 19th century at the western angle.
The south elevation features two-light recessed flat-faced mullioned windows in the first four bays, although the first floor has two windows with missing mullions and a single light in the first bay. The end two bays have 20th-century casements. The wing has sashed windows, some of which include glazing bars. The entrance to the third bay has a dated lintel and a 20th-century half-glazed door. There is a gable-end stack and a cross-axial stack. The rear of the building has an outshut beneath a catslide roof and varied fenestration.
The east range includes an entrance and a lean-to outshut at the gabled first bay, with a 20th-century casement above. The barn to the north features a segmental-headed entrance with 20th-century paired doors and an overlight. The end cottage has two bays with small sashed windows that have single glazing bars and horns, along with a plain entrance and a cross-axial stack. The interior has not been inspected but is said to contain a winding stone stair.
Local climate
Tongue House, Attached Barn and Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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 — 2 transactions since 2007
- 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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