Whitegates Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. Cottage.
Whitegates Cottages
- WRENN ID
- muffled-quartz-equinox
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Whitegates Cottages, B5278, Lower Holker
- OS grid reference
- SD 360 775
- Coordinates
- 54.18983, -2.98199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitegates Cottages are a pair of semi-detached houses built after 1849, possibly designed by George Webster. The cottages are constructed of roughcast stone with rock-faced stone dressings and feature a slate roof. They are two storeys high and consist of four bays. The stone base and quoins add to their architectural character. The windows have stone lintels and are fitted with two-light casements that include iron glazing bars arranged in octagon and square patterns, typical of the Holker estate. The first-floor windows are adorned with gablets that have decorative barge boards and finials. Each cottage has a porch with board doors and overlights, featuring open timber gabled roofs with finials and lattice-work sides. The buildings have gable-end stacks and a cross-axial stack. The returns display decorative barge boards, similar casements, and sashed windows with single glazing bars and horns. At the rear, there are two wings that also feature sashed windows.
Local climate
Whitegates Cottages 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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