Lock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. A C18 Lock-keeper's cottage. 4 related planning applications.

Lock Cottage

WRENN ID
brooding-steel-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1972
Type
Lock-keeper's cottage
Address
Lock Cottage, Ulverston, LA12 9EL
OS grid reference
SD 312 776
Coordinates
54.19002, -3.05443
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lock Cottage is likely a lock-keeper’s cottage, now a house, probably built around 1796, coinciding with the construction of the adjacent entrance lock to the Ulverston Canal. The cottage is roughcast with a slate roof. It has a deep plan and presents a single-storey, three-window façade. The windows are set in plain reveals with projecting sills. Two of the windows to the left of the door are 6-pane sashes, while the window to the right is also a sash window. The right-hand gable is coped and punctuated by a chimney. A second chimney rises behind the ridge line, located to the right of the second window.

Local climate

Lock Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,650 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 2011
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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