Plumgarths Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Plumgarths Cottages
- WRENN ID
- leaning-chapel-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Plumgarths Cottages, 1 and 2, Crook Road, Strickland Ketel, Westmorland and Furness, LA8 8LX
- OS grid reference
- SD 495 946
- Coordinates
- 54.34461, -2.77721
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Plumgarths Cottages, previously known as Low Plumgarths, is a house dated 1611, now divided into two cottages. It features roughcast render and a graduated slate roof, with two large chimneys that have circular shafts. The building is two storeys high.
No 1 has a 20th-century porch with a 19th-century door, a 20th-century casement window to the left, and a 19th-century window to the right, with three sash windows above. No 2, which was likely originally the service wing, has a 20th-century porch and door, along with two 20th-century casement windows.
Inside No 1, there are chamfered beams with tongued chamfer-stops. The kitchen has a blocked 3-light timber mullioned window, and there is a similar blocked 2-light window in the bedroom. The living room features a doorhead with a flattened Tudor arch, and the bedroom has a decorated plaster frieze and beam with trailing vines. The roof contains Queen strut trusses, and there are remains of a plank and muntin partition.
Local climate
Plumgarths Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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