Low Side is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. House.
Low Side
- WRENN ID
- rooted-basalt-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- House
- Address
- Low Side, the Green, Askham, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 515 237
- Coordinates
- 54.60664, -2.75165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Side is a house dating from the early 18th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. The building features cement rendered walls and is topped with a graduated greenslate roof that has stone chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and has two bays. The central gabled stone porch includes a side doorway and a front casement window, both framed in painted stone surrounds. There are also 20th-century casement windows in painted stone surrounds, along with a smaller fire window on the left side of the ground floor. This property is mentioned in the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England for Westmorland, page 23. It is listed for its group value with Askham Hall Farmhouse, as part of the barn from that property now serves as an extension to Low Side.
Local climate
Low Side sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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