Ghyll Cottage and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1984. A C18 House, barn. 1 related planning application.
Ghyll Cottage and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- cold-transept-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1984
- Type
- House, barn
- Address
- Ghyll Cottage and Attached Barn, Potter Fell Road, Strickland Roger, Westmorland and Furness, LA8 9AB
- OS grid reference
- SD 497 978
- Coordinates
- 54.37371, -2.77573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ghyll Cottage is a house with an attached barn located on Potter Fell Road, dating from around 1700, with alterations and extensions made in the 19th century. The barn features stone rubble walls with protruding through stones, while the house is rendered. It has a graduated slate roof with end chimney stacks and is two storeys high. To the left of the door, there are two early 19th-century windows with glazing bars, and to the right, there is a 19th-century sash window. Above, there are three sash windows. The right-hand end has a plinth. Inside, the cottage contains several chamfered beams from around 1700 and an early 19th-century staircase.
Local climate
Ghyll Cottage and Attached Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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