Church Stile Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Church Stile Cottage

WRENN ID
stony-shingle-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
Cottage
Address
Church Stile Cottage, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 9SW
OS grid reference
NY 337 074
Coordinates
54.45792, -3.02351
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Stile Cottage, formerly known as Church Cottage, is a small cottage located at the north entrance to the churchyard, next to the lychgate. The building is low and single-storey, featuring a colour-washed and cement-rendered roughcast exterior with a flag roof and a round chimney. It has a boarded door and a small square window with iron casements and leaded panes. At the rear, facing the churchyard, there are two very low storeys with three similar square windows. The cottage was once used as a school. For additional context, refer to the general group description under Grasmere.

Local climate

Church Stile Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 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 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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