Fairview Cottage, The Cottage and Nos 3-6 is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Row of cottages. 1 related planning application.
Fairview Cottage, The Cottage and Nos 3-6
- WRENN ID
- upper-oriel-harvest
- 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
- Row of cottages
- Address
- Fairview Cottage, The Cottage and Nos 3-6, Fair View Road, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 9EE
- OS grid reference
- NY 377 046
- Coordinates
- 54.43324, -2.96141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of six cottages built on a hillside terrace in Ambleside. The cottages are known as Fairview Cottage, The Cottage, and Nos 3 to 6. Originally, Fairview Cottage had dry slate walls, while the others were colour-washed. All the cottages are two storeys high. Most have modern doors, some with small, modern timber porches. They feature sash windows with 6 or 12 panes. The cottages, along with several other nearby buildings including St Anne’s Court, Ash Tree Cottage, the Old School House, and a barn, form a notable group.
Local climate
Fairview Cottage, The Cottage and Nos 3-6 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2009
- 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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