15, 16 and 17, Back Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Cottage and workshop. 5 related planning applications.

15, 16 and 17, Back Lane

WRENN ID
kindled-tin-lichen
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
Cottage and workshop
Address
15, 16 and 17, Back Lane, Sedbergh, Westmorland and Furness, LA10 5AQ
OS grid reference
SD 659 921
Coordinates
54.32334, -2.52554
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A wheelwright's cottage and workshop, dating from the late 18th century, and subsequently altered, now serves as a house and antique shop. The building is constructed of roughly-coursed mixed rubble with quoins to the left side, and has a slate roof. It forms an L-shape, comprising a two-unit front range—a cottage to the left and a former wheelwright's shop to the right—with a rear wing extending from the cottage.

The front of the building is two and three stories high, with two windows. The cottage section features a doorway with a moulded architrave, a cornice supported by consoles, and a panelled door. To the left are three vertically-aligned hornless sash windows with 16, 12, and 6 panes respectively, all featuring raised plain surrounds and deep reveals, now painted. The former wheelwright’s shop to the right has a large segmental-headed wagon doorway constructed with rubble voussoirs and a cement surround, containing board double doors, each with a fixed 16-pane window. Above the doorway is a single large hornless sash window with 16 panes and a surround similar to those on the cottage.

Inside the cottage, original features include board doors with lug hinges and a wooden sphere to the doorway, likely once part of a hinged curtain rail.

Local climate

15, 16 and 17, Back Lane sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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  • 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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