Priory Close Cottage and Adjoining Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House with outbuilding.

Priory Close Cottage and Adjoining Outbuildings

WRENN ID
turning-banister-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1970
Type
House with outbuilding
Address
Priory Close Cottage and Adjoining Outbuildings, LA11 6QQ
OS grid reference
SD 379 788
Coordinates
54.20135, -2.95283
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Priory Close Cottage and the adjoining outbuildings are located in Lower Allithwaite, Cartmel. This property dates back to the 17th century and may be built on medieval foundations. The house features roughcast stone, while the outbuildings are constructed from stone rubble, all topped with a slate roof.

The house is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with a cowhouse to the north that has two bays, and a barn further north. On the west elevation, the windows are mostly casements, but the first bay on the first floor of the house has a sashed window with glazing bars. A 20th-century flat-roofed porch with glazed doors is present. The cowhouse includes a sashed window with glazing bars and two entrances, while the first floor has inserted 20th-century sashed windows with glazing bars. The interior features a stone floor. The barn has an outshut under a catslide roof and a return garage door.

Notably, there is a medieval corbel with foliate decoration beneath the window on the first floor of the first bay. The property has a cross-axial stack and a gable-end stack, each with two rounded shafts. The east elevation displays varied fenestration with casements, and the barn includes an entrance and ventilation slots, along with a gabled wing at the end. This property is included for its group value.

Local climate

Priory Close Cottage and Adjoining Outbuildings 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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