Skiddaw Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1977. House.
Skiddaw Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-mantel-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Skiddaw Cottage, Vicarage Hill, Keswick, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 262 243
- Coordinates
- 54.60852, -3.14363
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Skiddaw Cottage is an early 19th-century building located on Vicarage Hill in Keswick. It is constructed of roughcast over stone and has two storeys. The entrance features a central panelled door with a rectangular fanlight above, all set within a moulded wooden doorcase with reveals. On either side of the entrance are wide segmental bays, each containing three sash windows topped with conical roofs. The upper storey has three 12-paned sash windows, also in moulded wood cases.
Local climate
Skiddaw Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% 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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