Thimble Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House. 1 related planning application.
Thimble Hall
- WRENN ID
- dark-gargoyle-swallow
- 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
- Thimble Hall, Main Street, Hawkshead, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 0NS
- OS grid reference
- SD 352 981
- Coordinates
- 54.37478, -2.99871
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thimble Hall is a house dating from the 17th century, with later alterations. It features a painted stone ground floor and a roughcast timber-framed first floor, topped with a slate roof. The building stands two storeys high with an attic and has two bays, with the first floor jettied. It has wide eaves on beam ends.
On the ground floor, there is a former shop front that has been filled with boarding, a window with small-paned fixed glazing and an upper opening light, and a four-panel door with three top lights. To the right, there is a four-light wooden mullioned window with intermediate bars and leaded glazing. The first floor has projecting wooden mullioned windows with transoms and leaded glazing, consisting of three lights and four lights. A small right return features a sashed window with glazing bars. The attic includes gabled tile-hung dormers with casements, and the rear of the building has a three-light wooden mullioned window. Thimble Hall is owned by the National Trust and was a gift from Beatrix Potter.
Local climate
Thimble Hall 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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