Chapel House Cottage Chapel House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Farmhouse, cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Chapel House Cottage Chapel House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
buried-paling-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 August 1985
Type
Farmhouse, cottage
Address
Chapel House Cottage Chapel House Farmhouse, Borrowdale, Cumberland, CA12 5XG
OS grid reference
NY 257 139
Coordinates
54.51533, -3.14823
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chapel House Farmhouse and Chapel House Cottage is a farmhouse and cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with 19th-century alterations. The building features painted rendered walls beneath a graduated greenslate roof, which includes painted rendered chimney stacks. The structure is two stories high and consists of a three-bay farmhouse with a three-bay cottage to the right, along with a single-bay extension, all covered by a common roof. The property has 20th-century doors and sash windows with glazing bars, including a double sash window on the ground floor to the left of the farmhouse, all set in plain reveals. The extension features 20th-century casement windows in enlarged plain reveals.

Local climate

Chapel House Cottage Chapel House Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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