Blake Hill Farmhouse and Blake Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1985. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Blake Hill Farmhouse and Blake Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-marble-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Blake Hill Farmhouse and Blake Hill Cottage, Mungrisdale, Westmorland and Furness, CA11 0SZ
- OS grid reference
- NY 365 281
- Coordinates
- 54.6441, -2.98467
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A farmhouse with an adjoining cottage, dated 1662 on an interior beam, with a late 18th-century extension and alterations. The construction is whitewashed rubble, with the extension being whitewashed roughcast, all under graduated greenslate roofs. The extension has a coped gable and kneeler to the left, and stone and rendered chimney stacks. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three bays, with a taller two-bay extension to the right, which now forms Blake Hill Cottage. Blake Hill Farmhouse features a 20th-century door within a 17th-century stone gabled porch, containing internal side seats and a recess. It has sash windows in 18th-century painted stone surrounds, with double windows on both floors to the right of the entrance. A small fire window is situated under a wooden lintel to the extreme right. Inside, the farmhouse has a beamed ceiling, including one dated beam, and an inglenook with a fire beam. Blake Hill Cottage has a six-panel door set within a chamfered stone surround and an 18th-century gabled porch with side seats. Its sash windows have glazing bars, with double windows to the left of the entrance. The passage of the cottage contains a built-in carved and panelled court cupboard inscribed B.S. 1691, believed to have originated from the farmhouse. An adjoining barn to the left is not of particular interest.
Local climate
Blake Hill Farmhouse and Blake Hill Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2024
- 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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