Forest Side Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Forest Side Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grey-pewter-hawthorn
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Forest Side Cottage, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 9RL
- OS grid reference
- NY 342 082
- Coordinates
- 54.46502, -3.01633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forest Side Cottage is a 17th century building located in Grasmere. It is constructed of white-washed stone rubble and features a slate roof, standing two storeys tall. The cottage has a gabled porch that includes inner side benches. There are three square sash windows on the ground floor and four above, with slate dripstones above the lower windows. Inside, the cottage contains spice cupboards and a court cupboard that is dated 1704. Historically, it served as a smithy and the ostlers' house for the Swan Hotel, which was a horse-changing stage.
Local climate
Forest Side 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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