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
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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