Barn Hey Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1989. House. 1 related planning application.
Barn Hey Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-timber-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Barn Hey Cottage, Flookburgh Road, Lower Allithwaite, LA11 7RJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 383 762
- Coordinates
- 54.17797, -2.94652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barn Hey Cottage is a house dated 1700, located on Flookburgh Road in Lower Allithwaite. The building is roughcast with a slate roof and consists of two storeys and two bays. The windows feature casements. The entrance has a chamfered lintel adorned with an escutcheon that includes a rose, crosses, and the date, with the chamfer displaying three jewels. There is a gable-end stack. The right side of the building has an entrance and a small sashed window, while the rear includes another entrance, a casement window, and a sashed window on the first floor. Inside, the cottage has timber-framed partition walls with dado rails, some doors also featuring dado rails, and a six-fielded-panel door. The beams are stop-chamfered, and the first floor has some doors with H-hinges.
Local climate
Barn Hey Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- 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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