Fold Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. House.
Fold Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-lancet-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fold Cottage, Claife, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 378 953
- Coordinates
- 54.3499, -2.95771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fold Cottage is a house that likely dates from the late 17th century, with later additions. It is constructed of roughcast stone and has a slate roof. The building has two storeys and features five irregular bays. The windows vary in style, with most being casements. The central two bays have first-floor windows that are lower than the others, while the fifth bay on the ground floor includes a three-light wooden chamfered-mullioned window with one intermediate bar. There are three entrances; two of these have gabled timber porches, and one features a trellis porch with a wide-boarded door. The house has a gable-end stack and a cross-axial stack. At the rear, there are sashed windows with glazing bars in the first two bays. There is a barn to the right of the house, but it is of no special interest.
Local climate
Fold Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,570 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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