Beech Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1974. Houses.
Beech Cottages
- WRENN ID
- turning-eave-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1974
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- Beech Cottages, 1-4, Caldbeck, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 339 385
- Coordinates
- 54.73801, -3.02691
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech Cottages are four houses built in the early 18th century. They feature whitewashed sandstone rubble walls topped with a graduated greenslate roof and have 18th and 20th century brick chimney stacks. The cottages are two storeys high, with each house consisting of a single bay under a common roof. They have panelled doors set in painted stone surrounds. The windows include both sash and casement styles, all within original painted surrounds; the windows on the right are enlarged sashes with glazing bars, set in 19th century painted stone surrounds. These cottages are included partly for their group value with Berkeley House and Berkeley Cottage.
Local climate
Beech Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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