Wordsworth Museum, Town End is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Museum. 1 related planning application.
Wordsworth Museum, Town End
- WRENN ID
- iron-garret-clover
- 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
- Museum
- Address
- Wordsworth Museum, Town End, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 9SH
- OS grid reference
- NY 341 069
- Coordinates
- 54.45402, -3.0165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wordsworth Museum, located at Town End in Grasmere, is a building that likely originated as a cottage and has since been restored. It is situated to the south of Dove Cottage. The structure features dry stone walls and a slate roof, along with two large, barrel-shaped round chimneys. The windows are three-light wood-mullioned with diamond leaded panes.
Local climate
Wordsworth Museum, Town End 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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