Grange Bridge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Grange Bridge Cottage

WRENN ID
vacant-remnant-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 March 1967
Type
Cottage
Address
Grange Bridge Cottage, Borrowdale, Cumberland, CA12 5UQ
OS grid reference
NY 253 174
Coordinates
54.54691, -3.15572
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Grange Bridge Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage that was used as a Post Office in the 20th century. It features slate rubble walls with large flush quoins and is topped by a 20th-century graduated greenslate roof with a rebuilt slate chimney stack. The cottage is two storeys high and has four bays. It has a 20th-century door and casement windows with glazing bars set in plain reveals, including one window located within a blocked doorway.

Local climate

Grange Bridge Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 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 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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