Tower Cottage and Bay to Left, Part of Gatehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House.
Tower Cottage and Bay to Left, Part of Gatehouse
- WRENN ID
- blind-panel-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tower Cottage and Bay to Left, Part of Gatehouse, Cavendish Street, Lower Allithwaite, LA11 6QA
- OS grid reference
- SD 378 788
- Coordinates
- 54.20116, -2.95466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower Cottage, part of the Gatehouse, is a house likely built in the late 18th century. It features roughcast stone with a slate roof and is two storeys high with four bays. Most of the windows are sashed with glazing bars. The first bay on the ground floor has a small-paned bow window topped with a modillioned entablature and a wide cornice that extends as a canopy over the entrance to the right. The fourth bay has a small inserted casement window to the right of the entrance. The first bay also includes an entrance with a wide-boarded door and an overlight. The second bay has a garage entrance, while the third bay features a six-fielded-panel door, two of which are glazed. The fourth bay has an entrance with a consoled entablature and a segmental pediment with a moulded shell in the tympanum, along with a six-panel door and an overlight with glazing bars. There is a cross-axial stack present.
Local climate
Tower Cottage and Bay to Left, Part of Gatehouse 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
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