Laurel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. House. 3 related planning applications.
Laurel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- final-slate-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laurel Cottage, Brantfell Road, Windermere, Westmorland and Furness, LA23 3EF
- OS grid reference
- SD 403 968
- Coordinates
- 54.36366, -2.91978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage located on Brantfell Road in Bowness. The exterior is roughcast over stone rubble, with an old slate roof. The building is two storeys high, and features three bays on the ground floor, with a panelled door and fanlight. Above are four 12-paned sash windows.
Local climate
Laurel Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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 — 7 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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