High Park Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
High Park Cottages
- WRENN ID
- burning-timber-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- High Park Cottages, Skelwith, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 9NS
- OS grid reference
- NY 323 028
- Coordinates
- 54.4168, -3.04448
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Park Cottages consists of two houses and an outbuilding, likely dating from the 17th century and later. The buildings are constructed from painted stone rubble and feature a slate roof. They are two storeys high and have four bays, with the fourth bay probably added later. There is a projecting slate course over the ground floor. The windows are casements, with fire windows in the first and fourth bays. Entrances are located between the second and third bays, and there is an additional entrance to the fourth bay. The cottages have two cross-axial stacks and an outbuilding to the left. The rear of the property has varied small windows and a projection under a cat slide roof, with one window featuring a two-light wood mullioned frame. The outbuilding has large doors. Inside, there is a plank and muntin partition and a late 17th-century door, along with an unglazed wood mullioned window that is now internal. The property is owned by the National Trust, a gift from Beatrix Potter.
Local climate
High Park Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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