Howsley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Howsley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-tower-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Howsley Cottage, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 9LE
- OS grid reference
- NY 366 035
- Coordinates
- 54.42356, -2.97723
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Howsley Cottage is a picturesque cottage ornée dating from the 18th century. The exterior is cream roughcast over a stone rubble core, with a slate roof and three chimneys. It has two storeys and features four 12-paned sash windows on the upper floor and five below. A twin-glazed door is set beneath a small verandah/porch supported by delicate wooden piers, Tudor arches and iron cresting. All windows have awning cases.
The left-hand (western) portion of the cottage presents a lower, partly gabled and partly castellated profile. This section contains a glazed and panelled door above a blind, traceried round fanlight, both sheltered by a round-headed porch with a Chinese-patterned front fascia on slender wooden Tuscan columns. A garage has been inserted within a large round arch, once part of a coach-house.
The cottage forms part of a group with the Croft Hotel, Croft Lodge, Numbers 1 to 5 (consec), the Croft Courtyard (including a cobbled courtyard with a mounting block and pump), the Gatehouse, Wayside and Rock Cottage.
Local climate
Howsley Cottage 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 — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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