Midtown Cottage and House Adjoining with Former Stable is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. House, stable.

Midtown Cottage and House Adjoining with Former Stable

WRENN ID
stony-pinnacle-vale
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, stable
OS grid reference
NY 514 237
Coordinates
54.60633, -2.75242
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Midtown Cottage and the adjoining house with a former stable date from the early 18th century. They feature painted stone rubble walls and are topped with a graduated greenslate roof and brick chimney stacks. Midtown Cottage is two storeys tall and consists of three bays, while the adjoining house has two bays, and the stable, which is now partly used for domestic purposes, also has two bays, all under a common roof. Midtown Cottage has an off-centre plank door in a plain opening, along with irregular sash and casement windows in painted stone surrounds, some of which are from the 19th century, including a left ground floor fire window. The adjoining house has a central 20th-century door and sash windows in 19th-century painted stone surrounds. The stables feature large double plank doors on the right and sash windows in 18th-century painted stone surrounds. Midtown Cottage is mentioned in the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England for Westmorland.

Local climate

Midtown Cottage and House Adjoining with Former Stable 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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