Seathwaite Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Seathwaite Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-granite-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Seathwaite Cottage, Borrowdale, Cumberland, CA12 5XJ
- OS grid reference
- NY 235 121
- Coordinates
- 54.49882, -3.18223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Seathwaite Cottage is a mid-17th century cottage that has undergone some alterations in the 19th century. It features painted roughcast walls beneath a graduated greenslate roof, along with roughcast and slate chimney stacks. The cottage is two storeys high and consists of three bays. The ground floor has a 20th-century door and enlarged casement windows, while the upper floor windows are likely in their original plain reveals. Inside, there is a panelled court cupboard that is dated and inscribed with "I. & E.R. 1720," which, although no longer built-in, may be an original feature of the house. The cottage has group value with the nearby Seathwaite Farmhouse and Seathwaite Farm Cottage.
Local climate
Seathwaite Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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 — 1 application
- 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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