Gill Brow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. A C18 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Gill Brow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-jade-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Gill Brow Cottage, Blindbothel, Cumberland, CA13 0SR
- OS grid reference
- NY 115 250
- Coordinates
- 54.61315, -3.37087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gill Brow Cottage is a late 18th-century farmhouse. It is built of whitewashed slate rubble with a graduated greenslate roof and brick chimney stacks. The original two-bay section is accompanied by a left extension, both under a common roof. A panelled door is located on the left side, and sash windows are set within painted stone surrounds. A pent-roofed washhouse extension sits to the left, featuring a side plank door and a casement window. The cottage is listed for group value with Gill Brow.
Local climate
Gill Brow Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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