Midtown Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1986. House.
Midtown Cottages
- WRENN ID
- iron-string-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Midtown Cottages, Caldbeck, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 324 397
- Coordinates
- 54.74849, -3.05111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Midtown Cottages is a pair of houses, likely built in the late 17th century. They feature roughcast walls and are topped with a graduated greenslate roof, which includes rendered chimney stacks. The buildings are two storeys high, with two bays on the left and a single bay on the right under a common roof. The house on the left has a boarded door set in a chamfered surround, along with sash windows that have glazing bars, all framed in painted stone surrounds. There are smaller fire windows on both floors of the left house. The house on the right has a 20th-century door in a painted stone surround and sash windows, with double windows on the ground floor, also in painted stone surrounds. The house on the right is included for group value only.
Local climate
Midtown Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
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