Sawmill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. House.
Sawmill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-rafter-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sawmill Cottage, the Green, Askham, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 515 237
- Coordinates
- 54.60643, -2.75227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sawmill Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with occasional red sandstone blocks, featuring flush quoins and pink sandstone dressings. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and has rendered and banded stone chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with a pent extension on the right side. The central door is from the 20th century, and there are casement windows in original stone surrounds, with all ground floor openings set under relieving arches. Additionally, there is a 19th-century lean-to extension that includes a large casement window in a plain reveal.
Local climate
Sawmill Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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