Low Ludderburn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1987. House.
Low Ludderburn
- WRENN ID
- third-stronghold-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Low Ludderburn, Cartmel Fell, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 405 912
- Coordinates
- 54.31296, -2.91545
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Ludderburn is a house, probably from the 18th century, located in Cartmel Fell. It is constructed of roughcast stone and features a slate roof. The building has two storeys and two bays, with the first bay projecting forward under a catslide roof. There is a lean-to outshut on the left side.
The first bay includes a stair window with leaded glazing, while the re-entrant angle has its upper part filled in. The second bay has a casement window with a slated lintel and a first-floor window with small-paned fixed glazing that includes an opening light. The gabled porch features a return entrance and a front small-paned light with fragments of stained glass. The outshut has a small-paned casement window.
Gable-end stacks are present, and the left return has an entrance. At the rear, there are casement windows, with two windows located on the ground floor of the second bay. Notably, the author Arthur Ransome lived here from 1925 to 1935 and wrote "Swallows and Amazons" during that time.
Local climate
Low Ludderburn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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