Scarness Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. A Early 18th Century Farmhouse.
Scarness Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tangled-gargoyle-falcon
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Early 18th Century
- Address
- Scarness Cottage, Bassenthwaite, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 220 305
- Coordinates
- 54.66386, -3.21063
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Scarness Cottage is an early 18th-century farmhouse located in Bassenthwaite. It features roughcast walls and a graduated greenslate roof, with a large square roughcast chimney stack on the left and a smaller one on the right. The building is two storeys high and has two bays of double span. The windows are sash style, with upper floor windows having glazing bars, while the lower ones have had their flat stone mullions removed. There is a fire window on the ground floor to the left, and a plank door in a plain opening on the left side. At the time of the survey, the cottage was derelict and unoccupied, and the interior was not inspected. An adjoining barn is not of interest.
Local climate
Scarness Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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