Linden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.

Linden Cottage

WRENN ID
secret-roof-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Linden Cottage, Claife, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 0JU
OS grid reference
SD 358 982
Coordinates
54.37589, -2.98846
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Linden Cottage is a house dating from the 17th or 18th century. It has a roughcast exterior and a slate roof, standing two storeys high with two bays. The windows feature small-paned glazing; the first bay on the ground floor has a pivoted upper half, while the second bay has smaller panes with one opening pane. The first-floor windows include upper opening lights. The entrance to the second bay is marked by an open timber gabled porch and a wide-boarded door. There are gable-end stacks, and the left side of the building has a window with small-paned glazing and a pivoted upper half. The rear of the cottage features a dripcourse. On the ground floor, there is a French window and two casement windows located beneath the dripcourse, while the first floor has a window with small-paned glazing and a pivoted upper half.

Local climate

Linden Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% 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 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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