Brotto Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Farmhouse.
Brotto Cottages
- WRENN ID
- upper-ashlar-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Brotto Cottages, 5, St. John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 318 184
- Coordinates
- 54.55683, -3.05543
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brotto Cottages is a farmhouse that has been converted into a cottage, dating from the late 17th century. The building features painted roughcast walls and is topped with a graduated greenslate roof, which includes painted roughcast chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and consists of three bays. The entrance is a top-glazed panelled door set within a 17th-century gabled stone porch that has side seats. The windows are sash windows with plain reveals. Inside, the ground floor has beamed ceilings, and the room on the right contains a partly-blocked inglenook with a firebeam and a built-in 17th-century panelled court cupboard. The adjoining No. 4 is not of interest.
Local climate
Brotto Cottages 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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