Canons Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Blacksmith's shop.

Canons Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 August 1985
Type
Blacksmith's shop
Address
Canons Cottage, Underskiddaw, Cumberland
OS grid reference
NY 256 261
Coordinates
54.62464, -3.15345
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Canons Cottage is a blacksmith's shop that has been converted into a garden shed. It dates from the early 18th century and features whitewashed slate rubble walls beneath a graduated greenslate roof, which includes small round slate chimney stacks. The building is 1½ storeys high and consists of 2 bays. It has a central plank door flanked by casement windows with glazing bars, all set in plain reveals. The left window is located in a large blocked doorway. There is also a small attic staircase window on the right side, along with small ground-floor windows at the rear and a lean-to fuel shed.

Local climate

Canons Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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