Howe Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Cottage.
Howe Cottages
- WRENN ID
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- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Howe Cottages, 1 and 2, Borrowdale, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 256 147
- Coordinates
- 54.52249, -3.14948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Howe Cottages, consisting of Nos. 1 and 2, are two cottages built in the early 18th century and early 19th century. They feature slate rubble walls, with the older part painted and rendered. The cottages have a graduated greenslate roof and rebuilt roughcast chimney stacks. The older cottage on the left (No. 2) is two storeys high with three bays, while the right cottage (No. 1) has two bays, both under a common roof. The left cottage has a 20th-century door and an additional plank door to the right, both set in plain openings. The right cottage also has a similar 20th-century door. Both cottages have sash windows with glazing bars on the ground floor, all set in plain reveals. They are listed for their group value with Nook Cottage and Nook Farmhouse.
Local climate
Howe Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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