Town Head Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Town Head Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-railing-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Town Head Cottage, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 9RS
- OS grid reference
- NY 333 098
- Coordinates
- 54.47944, -3.03079
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town Head Cottage is a 17th-century building, dated 1688 on a plaster panel on the east wall. It features rough, thick walls made of lime-washed stone rubble and has a flag roof. The cottage is two storeys high, with a door located on the gable end to the south. The east front has three windows on the ground floor and two above. Although the windows are now modern casements, they are set in their original openings. A modern building to the north is excluded from this description.
Local climate
Town Head Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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