Rydal Lodge Rydal Lodge Cottage and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Lodge, cottage, barn. 2 related planning applications.
Rydal Lodge Rydal Lodge Cottage and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- third-hammer-juniper
- 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
- Lodge, cottage, barn
- Address
- Rydal Lodge Rydal Lodge Cottage and Attached Barn, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 9LR
- OS grid reference
- NY 364 061
- Coordinates
- 54.44673, -2.98134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rydal Lodge, Rydal Lodge Cottage, and the attached barn are early 18th-century buildings. They feature roughcast over stone rubble and have a hipped slate roof, standing two storeys tall. The north front includes a panelled door with a round traceried fanlight, surrounded by moulded and panelled reveals. There are three 16-paned sash windows on the ground floor and four above. The left side, which faces the road, has a gabled porch with a modern door, two 16-paned sash windows on the ground floor, and four above. The small cottage at the south end is also roughcast with a slate roof and stands two storeys high. It has a flush-panelled door, one 16-paned sash window and one double sash window on the ground floor, and two 16-paned windows and one 20-paned window above. The stone rubble barn extends under the same roof to the left (south) and has an entrance at a higher road level.
Local climate
Rydal Lodge Rydal Lodge Cottage and Attached Barn 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.
- 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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