Beckside Cottage with Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1989. House and barn.

Beckside Cottage with Attached Barn

WRENN ID
second-gargoyle-ochre
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
House and barn
OS grid reference
SD 372 805
Coordinates
54.21657, -2.96326
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Beckside Cottage with attached barn is a house and barn, likely built in the late 17th century or early 18th century. The structure is made of roughcast stone with some projecting areas and has slate roofs. It is two storeys high and consists of seven bays, with the first four bays being slightly taller. The barn is integrated into the structure, with the third and fourth bays now part of the house.

On the ground floor, the windows are sashed with glazing bars and feature slated lintels. The first floor has small-paned casement windows in the third and fourth bays, while the fifth, sixth, and seventh bays have small-paned pivoted casements. The entrance to the sixth bay includes a gabled porch with a nine-panel door, and the fourth bay has an entrance with a board door. The first bay features pivoted garage doors, and the second bay has a segmental-headed barn entrance with a pentice and pivoted doors.

There are gable-end stacks on the fourth and seventh bays, with the latter being corbelled. To the left of the main structure, there is a rubble lean-to outbuilding. The rear of the building has a gabled wing and a dormer window. The interior has not been inspected but is reported to have a plank and muntin partition and an early 18th-century dated spice cupboard door.

Local climate

Beckside Cottage with Attached Barn 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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