Ash Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. House.
Ash Cottage
- WRENN ID
- other-threshold-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ash Cottage, Dacre
- OS grid reference
- NY 485 281
- Coordinates
- 54.64604, -2.79898
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ash Cottage is a house dating from the mid-18th century. It features painted rendered walls beneath a graduated greenslate roof, which is complemented by end red sandstone chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has two bays. The centre of the facade has a 20th-century door flanked by sash windows with glazing bars, all set within painted stone surrounds. The right return wall also has similar sash windows. The cottage is listed for its group value with the adjoining Ash View.
Local climate
Ash Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2010
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