Burrow Heights Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. Pair of houses.

Burrow Heights Cottages

WRENN ID
twelfth-hinge-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 May 1968
Type
Pair of houses
Address
Burrow Heights Cottages, 1 and 2, Scotforth (Det)
OS grid reference
SD 475 579
Coordinates
54.01448, -2.80201
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Burrow Heights Cottages is a pair of houses dating from the late 17th century. They are constructed of slobbered rubble with a slate roof at the front and a stone slate roof at the rear. The cottages are two storeys high. The windows are mullioned, featuring a rebate and chamfer. No. 1, located on the left, has three bays; the windows in the first and second bays each have three lights, while the third bay has a two-light window on the first floor and a surround with the mullions removed below. The door, positioned between the first and second bays, has a chamfered surround with a Tudor-arched head. No. 2 consists of one bay and has three-light windows, with a door on the left that has plain reveals. A continuous drip course runs above the doors of both houses. There are chimneys on the gables and between the two cottages, with the right-hand gable featuring coping and a kneeler. The interior includes exposed ceiling joists, with two large chamfered axial main joists in each room.

Local climate

Burrow Heights Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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