High Street Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1953. House.
High Street Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-attic-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1953
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SD 475 614
- Coordinates
- 54.04639, -2.80289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Street Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It features a facade of sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings, while the sides and rear are constructed of watershot coursed sandstone. The building has a slate roof and a rectangular double-depth plan, oriented gable to the road and facing north.
The cottage is two storeys high and has two symmetrical bays, designed in a Gothick style. Notable architectural elements include a plinth, chamfered quoins, a bracketed cornice, an embattled parapet, and four-centred arched openings. The former central doorway, now altered to a window, has a deep double-chamfered surround and a hoodmould. The two windows on each floor have hollow-chamfered surrounds and are all sashed with intersecting glazing bars. The roof conceals an attic dormer behind the parapet and features gable chimneys.
The current entrance is located in the right-hand side wall facing the road, consisting of a four-centred arched doorway with a small chamfer on an otherwise plain surround and a hoodmould above. Above this doorway is a tall stair window in a matching style, featuring Y-tracery. The rear of the building includes a large later two-storey canted bay with windows that are sashed without glazing bars. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
High Street Cottage 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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