April Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. House.
April Cottage
- WRENN ID
- worn-stone-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- April Cottage, 15, Main Street, Overton
- OS grid reference
- SD 435 579
- Coordinates
- 54.01473, -2.86273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
April Cottage is a house built in 1741 that has been altered over time. It features pebbledashed rubble and a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The windows have plain stone surrounds, although the mullions have been removed. The right-hand bay includes a former cart entrance on the ground floor, which has a segmental arch and modern doors that are set back. Between the first and second bays, there is a single-storey gabled porch that has a window with a stone or rendered surround on the front wall and a door on the right-hand side. Above the porch, there is a plaque inscribed with 'INE 1741'. Inside the cottage, the ceiling joists are exposed, and the left-hand room features a moulded shouldered fireplace.
Local climate
April Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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, 13 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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