20, 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. House.
20, Back Lane
- WRENN ID
- under-obsidian-pigeon
- 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
- House
- Address
- 20, Back Lane, Sedbergh, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 659 921
- Coordinates
- 54.32341, -2.52512
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 Back Lane is a house that may have originally been an agricultural building. It likely dates from the late 18th century and has undergone alterations in the 19th century and more recently. The structure is built from mixed random rubble with large irregular quoins and features a slate roof, which was previously stone slate. The house has a double-depth, double-fronted plan and stands three storeys high with two windows on the front.
On the ground floor, there is a doorway with a panelled-pilaster architrave and a cornice supported by simple curved brackets, flanked by four-pane sashed windows. The first floor features two large canted flat-roofed wooden oriel windows with six-pane sashed glazing and simple panelled aprons. Above these, the second floor has two tall half-dormers that currently have plain double-glazing, which is considered unsympathetic to the building's character. The house has gable chimneys.
The interior has not been inspected. This property forms a group with Nos. 18 and 19, which are adjacent to the left.
Local climate
20, 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
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