Old Bank Cottage and Aysgarth Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1962. Cottages. 3 related planning applications.
Old Bank Cottage and Aysgarth Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-threshold-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1962
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Old Bank Cottage and Aysgarth Cottage, the Square, Burton, Burton-In-Kendal, LA6 1LX
- OS grid reference
- SD 530 764
- Coordinates
- 54.18168, -2.72157
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bank Cottage and Aysgarth Cottage are two cottages, likely dating from the 17th century, with subsequent alterations. They are constructed with roughcast render and have a graduated greenslate roof with a stone ridge. The cottages are two storeys high, with the upper floor overhanging at the front. Each cottage has one bay. Old Bank Cottage features a 20th-century aluminium-glazed door and a 19th-century bay window with a 20th-century top-hung casement window above. Aysgarth Cottage has a glazed door and a 19th-century sash window with vertical glazing bars on the lower floor, and a sash window without glazing bars above. The upper floor is supported by two substantial circular stone columns and a smaller rectangular column on the left side.
Local climate
Old Bank Cottage and Aysgarth Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 9 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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