Wayside Cottage, Adjoining Cottage and Adjoining Buildings of G Usher and Sons is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. House, outbuilding.

Wayside Cottage, Adjoining Cottage and Adjoining Buildings of G Usher and Sons

WRENN ID
errant-floor-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1970
Type
House, outbuilding
OS grid reference
SD 338 987
Coordinates
54.37967, -3.02055
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wayside Cottage, along with an adjoining cottage and buildings of G Usher and Sons, dates from the 17th century or early 18th century and has been altered over time. The structures are made of roughcast stone with slate roofs and consist of two houses and outbuildings. They are two storeys high and have five bays, with the fourth and fifth bays being lower. The ground floor features dripcourses, and the windows are casements; the third bay includes a fire window with small-paned fixed glazing. A gabled porch is located at the second bay, which has a glazed inner door. The fifth bay has an entrance with a recessed half-glazed door. The first three bays make up Wayside Cottage, which contains a spice cupboard with a door and plank and muntin partitions. There are gable-end stacks present. The building to the right is constructed of stone rubble and has a Welsh slate roof, featuring a large inserted entrance with a slated lintel and a smaller entrance to the left, as well as an entrance with a square opening above to the right. A small end building is plastered at the front with a stone gable end and has old roof slates, a window, and a small opening, along with a gable-end pitching hole.

Local climate

Wayside Cottage, Adjoining Cottage and Adjoining Buildings of G Usher and Sons sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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