Beckside Cottages, House to West Only is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. A C17 House.
Beckside Cottages, House to West Only
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beckside Cottages, House to West Only, Claife, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 358 983
- Coordinates
- 54.37637, -2.98919
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beckside Cottages is a house located in Claife Colthouse, dating from the 17th or 18th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone with a slate roof and has two storeys with three bays. There is a slate dripcourse along the building. The windows in the third bay of the ground floor and the first and third bays of the first floor feature small-paned fixed glazing with opening lights, while the other windows are small-paned casements. The entrance includes a half-glazed door. The right side of the house shows exposed stones at the base and gable, along with two dripcourses. There is a window with small-paned fixed glazing and a stone bulge in the wall, which may indicate the presence of a bread oven. The house has a gable-end stack, and the rear features casement windows.
Local climate
Beckside Cottages, House to West Only 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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