The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-mullion-lark
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Borrowdale, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 262 136
- Coordinates
- 54.51314, -3.13997
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a cottage and former stable dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of painted slate rubble and features a graduated greenslate roof with a rebuilt roughcast chimney stack. The building has two storeys and two bays, with a lower stable section to the left. There is a 20th-century door set within a 20th-century wooden porch. The windows include sash and casement styles with glazing bars, with the ground-floor right window being a smaller fire window, all set in plain reveals. The Cottage has group value with Stonethwaite Farmhouse.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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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