Little Crosthwaite Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Little Crosthwaite Cottages
- WRENN ID
- woven-facade-yew
- 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
- Little Crosthwaite Cottages, 1-4, Underskiddaw, Cumberland, CA12 4QD
- OS grid reference
- NY 233 278
- Coordinates
- 54.63975, -3.18892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Crosthwaite Cottages, originally four cottages now converted into three, were built in the early 19th century for workers of the Mirehouse estate. The cottages feature slate rubble walls with a roughcast front, topped by a graduated greenslate roof and roughcast chimney stacks. They are two storeys high and consist of two bays each, with Nos. 1 and 2 now combined into a single cottage. Each cottage has a gabled front and plank doors set in round-arched plain openings, although the door to No. 1 has been blocked with a window inserted. The ground floor has casement windows beneath Yorkshire sash windows. The rear of the cottages features Yorkshire sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds, set under brick relieving arches, while similar windows above do not have arches. There are also some smaller 20th-century windows on the upper floor.
Local climate
Little Crosthwaite Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 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 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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