Gatehouse Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1989. House. 2 related planning applications.
Gatehouse Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-string-nettle
- 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
- Gatehouse Cottage, Cavendish Street, Lower Allithwaite, LA11 6QA
- OS grid reference
- SD 378 787
- Coordinates
- 54.2011, -2.9545
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gatehouse Cottage is a house, likely dating from the early 18th century, with later alterations. It is built of stone rubble with a slate roof, and has brick detailing to the stacks. The house has two storeys and two bays. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars. The central entrance features a six-fielded-panel door. A timber lintel is embedded in the wall above and to one side of the entrance. The house has gable-end stacks, with the stack to the right projecting and featuring a brick shaft, and a cross-axial stack. The rear of the house has sash windows.
Local climate
Gatehouse 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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