Top Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. A C18 House. 2 related planning applications.
Top Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-pewter-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Top Cottage, School Lane, Wray-With-Botton, LA2 8QE
- OS grid reference
- SD 603 674
- Coordinates
- 54.10175, -2.6084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top Cottage is a house dating from the mid-18th century. It is built of watershot sandstone and has a tile roof. The building is two storeys high and features two bays. The windows have plain stone surrounds and consist of two lights with flat-faced mullions on the ground floor, while the first-floor windows have had their mullions removed. The door, located between the bays, also has a plain stone surround. There are gable chimneys on the roof. Inside, the right-hand room contains a covered shouldered stone fireplace. The cottage is marked as 'Bela Vista' on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map.
Local climate
Top Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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