Elmhow with Attached Cart Sheds is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Residential. 2 related planning applications.
Elmhow with Attached Cart Sheds
- WRENN ID
- fossil-mantel-wagtail
- 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
- Residential
- Address
- Elmhow with Attached Cart Sheds, CA11 0PU
- OS grid reference
- NY 372 150
- Coordinates
- 54.52693, -2.97071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elmhow with attached cart sheds is a 17th-century building located in Grisedale, Patterdale. It is constructed from colour-washed stone rubble and features an old slate roof. The building stands two storeys tall and has a boarded door along with six small-paned windows on the ground floor and four above, all of which are topped with a slate dripstone over the ground floor. There are two square chimneys on the structure. Attached to the right are stone rubble cart sheds, which have rough quoins and a flag roof with a stepped gable.
Local climate
Elmhow with Attached Cart Sheds sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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.
- 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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