Low Scorecrag is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. House.
Low Scorecrag
- WRENN ID
- tilted-rafter-sparrow
- 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
- Low Scorecrag, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 330 077
- Coordinates
- 54.46115, -3.034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Scorecrag is a building dating from the 16th century or around 1600. It is constructed from white-washed stone rubble and features a flag roof. The building is two storeys high and has two modern boarded doors with wrought iron hinges and knockers. On the ground floor, there are two sash windows, one with 24 panes and the other with 16 panes, both topped with a slate dripstone over the right-hand window. The upper floor contains three sash windows, two with 12 panes and one with 16 panes. There are three chimneys, with the end ones partly projecting on corbels. At the rear, there is a lower wing made of stone rubble that has small casement windows. The interior is reported to have original doors and is divided into two cottages, both sharing the same name.
Local climate
Low Scorecrag sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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