Lilac Cottage Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1989. Restaurant. 2 related planning applications.
Lilac Cottage Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- young-render-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1989
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- Lilac Cottage Restaurant, Lower Holker, LA11 7LN
- OS grid reference
- SD 365 755
- Coordinates
- 54.17183, -2.97383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lilac Cottage Restaurant is likely an early 18th-century house. It is constructed of roughcast stone with a slate roof. The building has a symmetrical plan, with a central entrance. It is two storeys high and has three bays. The windows are casements. A gabled porch shelters the front entrance, and the inner door is glazed and panelled. Gable-end stacks are present. At the rear is a lean-to outshut. The interior features a fielded-panelled partition wall with a dado rail, one two-panel door with a dado, some plank and muntin partitioning, an ovolo beam and a six-panel door, and a staircase with square newels.
Local climate
Lilac Cottage Restaurant 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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