Atkinson Ground House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House.
Atkinson Ground House
- WRENN ID
- ancient-passage-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Atkinson Ground House, Coniston, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 321 977
- Coordinates
- 54.37041, -3.04664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Atkinson Ground House is a house from the 18th century and later, located in Coniston. It is constructed of roughcast stone and features a slate roof. The building has two storeys and five bays, with an additional one-storey bay added to the left gable end. There are slate dripcourses at the ground floor level. The windows include casements, some of which have wooden mullions and iron opening lights, with a fire window in the first bay.
A large gabled porch with paired doors is present, along with a lean-to outshut bay to the right. The house has a prominent tapering gable-end stack and two cross-axial stacks. The one-storey bay features large 20th-century windows and a gable-end stack. The rear of the house includes dripcourses, a gabled projecting bay, and casements, with an entrance that has a lean-to canopy.
Local climate
Atkinson Ground House 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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