The Knoll is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. House. 8 related planning applications.
The Knoll
- WRENN ID
- north-bonework-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Knoll, Rydal Road, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 9AY
- OS grid reference
- NY 373 048
- Coordinates
- 54.43479, -2.96759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Knoll is a tall, square house built in 1844 of stone rubble with slate quoins and a slate roof, featuring gables on each side. It is associated with the writer Harriet Martineau, who built it for her own use and where she died in 1876, and was visited by Mrs Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë. The house has two storeys, with clustered round chimneys and 16-paned sash windows with decorative stone labels. The front overlooking the garden includes a bay window and wooden mullioned and transomed windows. A boarded door is topped by a traceried fanlight, sheltered by a hood supported on wooden Tuscan columns.
Local climate
The Knoll 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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