Fieldhead Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Fieldhead Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tilted-belfry-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fieldhead Cottage, Hesket, CA11 9PU
- OS grid reference
- NY 456 392
- Coordinates
- 54.74482, -2.84617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fieldhead Cottage is an early 18th-century house located in Fieldhead. It is constructed of whitewashed rubble walls with a graduated greenslate roof and bottom courses of sandstone slates. The roof is punctuated by 19th-century chimney stacks built of banded sandstone. The house is two storeys high and has three bays. It has sash windows set in original 18th-century painted chamfered stone surrounds, which retain traces of flat stone mullions. A 20th-century plank porch has been added to the left return wall.
Local climate
Fieldhead Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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 — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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