Backstone Gill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Cottages.
Backstone Gill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- last-hall-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Backstone Gill Cottage, Dent, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 716 871
- Coordinates
- 54.27914, -2.4374
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Backstone Gill Cottage is a small farmhouse, now a house, likely built in the early 18th century. It has been slightly enlarged and altered over time. The exterior features cream-painted random rubble with large quoins and a green slate roof, with stone slate on the outshut. The building has a single-depth, two-unit plan, along with a lean-to porch and outhouse added to the center and right side of the front.
The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows. The lean-to porch, which covers a doorway offset to the right of center, includes a doorway on its left side and a small square four-pane fixed window in the front wall. To the left of the porch, the ground floor has a small square two-light casement and a one-light fire-window to the left of that, both featuring renewed joinery. On the first floor, there are two widely-separated small square two-light casements. The left gable displays a large square corbelled chimney. The rear of the cottage has through-stones and a small window on the first floor. The right gable wall shows two courses of prominent through-stones, a small rubble lean-to outbuilding at ground floor, and a small window to the left.
Inside, there are two large lateral beams in the house part to the left, and the staircase rises from the rear left corner.
Local climate
Backstone Gill Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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