Lilac Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. House.
Lilac Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stony-wicket-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lilac Cottage, Lowther, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 527 240
- Coordinates
- 54.6091, -2.73374
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lilac Cottage is an early 19th-century house featuring cement rendered walls and a graduated greenslate roof with banded, cement-rendered chimney stacks. The building stands two storeys high and has five bays. A central panelled door with an overlight is set within a raised red sandstone surround. The windows are sash style, also framed in raised red sandstone surrounds. Lilac Cottage is listed for its group value with Park Side.
Local climate
Lilac Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 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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