Riverside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. House.

Riverside Cottage

WRENN ID
peeling-bastion-wind
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
House
Address
Riverside Cottage, Bassenthwaite, Cumberland
OS grid reference
NY 230 323
Coordinates
54.68004, -3.19564
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Riverside Cottage is a house dating from the mid or late 17th century. It features painted rendered walls beneath a graduated greenslate roof, which has rendered chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays. There is a 20th-century plank door set within painted stone surrounds, located in a 20th-century porch. The cottage has 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars, which were originally part of 3-light windows, but one stone mullion has been removed from each window, and all have been removed from the window to the right of the entrance.

Local climate

Riverside Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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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