Bowderbeck is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Bowderbeck
- WRENN ID
- swift-bracket-claret
- 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
- Address
- Bowderbeck, Buttermere, Cumberland, CA13 9XA
- OS grid reference
- NY 178 166
- Coordinates
- 54.53888, -3.27101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowderbeck is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century. It features whitewashed rubble walls and a graduated greenslate roof with roughcast chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of two bays. A 20th-century door is set in a gabled stone porch. The windows are three-light stone-mullioned with chamfered edges. On the right side, there is a lean-to with a plank door at the front. The rear outshut includes two-light stone-mullioned windows.
Local climate
Bowderbeck 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 — 4 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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