Oakdene is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. House, cottage.
Oakdene
- WRENN ID
- narrow-pediment-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- Oakdene, 5 and 5a, Market Place, Dalton Town with Newton
- OS grid reference
- SD 226 739
- Coordinates
- 54.15542, -3.18596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oakdene is a house and cottage that was formerly known as The Ship Hotel, dated 'T.E. 1683', and has been altered over time. The building is pebble-dashed with a graduated slate roof and consists of two storeys, featuring a two-to-one window arrangement on the first floor. There is a wing at the rear of No. 5A on the right side.
No. 5, located on the left, has a part-glazed door with an overlight, flanked by 20th-century casement windows on each floor. There is a square-headed opening on the right, above which is the datestone with a horseshoe carved above the date. No. 5A has a door and a single window on each floor, similar to No. 5. The building has end stacks and a party wall ridge stack.
Inside, there are few exposed features. In No. 5, a former wall cupboard has been converted into a corner cupboard; it is made of oak and features two panels with 'TSE 1603' carved on the upper panel. In the pantry at the rear of No. 5A, there is a reused fragment of medieval masonry with a foliated cross. An early 20th-century photograph shows the building as The Ship Hotel with 19th-century fenestration.
Local climate
Oakdene sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 2 transactions since 1995
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