Lorton Park Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Lorton Park Cottage
- WRENN ID
- distant-doorway-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lorton Park Cottage, Cumberland, CA13 9UG
- OS grid reference
- NY 159 258
- Coordinates
- 54.62104, -3.30281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lorton Park Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located in Lorton. It features painted roughcast walls set on a chamfered plinth, topped with a graduated greenslate roof that has ornamental ridge tiles and offset brick chimney stacks. The cottage is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with a carriage archway on the right side under a common roof. There are two panelled doors situated in open stucco porches, which have plain bargeboards and finials. The windows are casement style, some of which include glazing bars, and are framed in painted chamfered surrounds beneath hoodmoulds. Additionally, there are double plank carriage doors set in a segmental quoined surround. The cottage has group value with the adjoining Lorton Park.
Local climate
Lorton Park 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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