Christopher North's Cottage and Old Elleray is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. Cottage.
Christopher North's Cottage and Old Elleray
- WRENN ID
- fallen-lead-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Christopher North's Cottage and Old Elleray, Elleray Lane, Windermere, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 411 990
- Coordinates
- 54.38367, -2.90785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christopher North's Cottage and Old Elleray, built in 1834, consists of two low storeys made from cement-rendered stone rubble, topped with an old slate roof. The original central gabled porch features two windows on the ground floor and three above, with the upper windows being 12-paned sashes and the lower ones modern but equipped with old horizontal dripstones. To the right, there is a single-storey extension with two very long windows that extend the full height. To the left, another extension rises two storeys, containing a door and a small-paned sash window on each floor.
Local climate
Christopher North's Cottage and Old Elleray sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- No related consent applications matched
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