Tower Wood Cottage and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1987. House, barn. 5 related planning applications.

Tower Wood Cottage and Attached Barn

WRENN ID
under-grate-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 July 1987
Type
House, barn
Address
Tower Wood Cottage and Attached Barn, Newby Bridge Road, Cartmel Fell, Westmorland and Furness, LA23 3PN
OS grid reference
SD 386 910
Coordinates
54.31144, -2.94506
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tower Wood Cottage and the attached barn date from the 17th century or early 18th century, with later alterations. The building is constructed of painted stone rubble and features a slate roof. It is two storeys high and has three bays. The south-west facade includes three-light single-chamfered-mullioned windows in the first bay, a window with small-paned fixed glazing and an opening pane in the second bay, and sashed windows with vertical glazing bars in the third bay. The central entrance is topped by a gabled slate canopy. There is a gable-end stack and a cross-axial stack.

The barn to the right has a partly remaining dripcourse over the cow-house entrance and two windows. To the left, there is a lean-to outhouse. The rear of the building has irregular fenestration; the first bay contains sashed windows with vertical glazing bars and horns, while the second and third bays have wooden chamfered-mullioned windows, with two lights on the ground floor and three lights on the first floor, along with a recessed entrance. The barn to the left has an entrance accessed by a ramp, raised above the eaves and featuring a raking roof. The ground floor of the barn has two entrances flanking a window to the right of the ramp, and the first floor has three windows, some with slated lintels.

Local climate

Tower Wood Cottage and Attached Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 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 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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