Howbeck Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1986. Meeting house, cottage. 1 related planning application.
Howbeck Cottages
- WRENN ID
- blind-gallery-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1986
- Type
- Meeting house, cottage
- Address
- Howbeck Cottages, 1, 2 and 3, Caldbeck, Cumberland, CA7 8JG
- OS grid reference
- NY 347 383
- Coordinates
- 54.73558, -3.01551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Howbeck Cottages, originally the Friends' Meeting House, dates back to 1729 and was converted into cottages in 1934. The building features painted rendered walls, partly resting on projecting plinth stones, and a Welsh slate roof with lower courses of greenslate and graduated greenslate at the rear. It has rendered chimney stacks. The structure is single-storey with five bays, including a single-bay extension to the right, which creates two two-bay cottages and a central single-bay cottage. The current front wall, which was originally blank, now includes three 20th-century doorways and sash windows. The rear of the building has sash windows with glazing bars set in original painted stone surrounds. A lean-to extension to the left of No. 3 is not of interest. For further information, refer to David Butler's "Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties," published in 1978, where it is referred to as Gillfoot Meeting House.
Local climate
Howbeck Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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