Willow Cottage and Thwaite Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. House. 9 related planning applications.
Willow Cottage and Thwaite Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-gargoyle-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- House
- Address
- Willow Cottage and Thwaite Cottage, B5320 (South Side), Tirril, Sockbridge and Tirril, CA10 2JE
- OS grid reference
- NY 503 266
- Coordinates
- 54.63256, -2.7713
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Cottage and Thwaite Cottage are two houses, likely originally built as a school, dating from the late 17th or early 18th century with alterations in the early 19th century that introduced a Gothic style. They are constructed of pink sandstone and cobble rubble walls with flush quoins, set beneath a graduated greenslate roof and rebuilt sandstone chimney stacks. Each house is a single storey with two bays. They both feature central studded plank doors within flattened segmental-arched surrounds, now recessed within 20th-century wooden latticed porches. The windows are 19th-century 2-light stone-mullioned windows with pointed heads, all set within stone surrounds.
Local climate
Willow Cottage and Thwaite Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- 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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