Ruthwaite Cottage and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1986. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Ruthwaite Cottage and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- tangled-arch-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ruthwaite Cottage and Adjoining Barn, CA7 1HG
- OS grid reference
- NY 237 367
- Coordinates
- 54.71987, -3.18521
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ruthwaite Cottage and an adjoining barn date from the early 18th century. The cottage is now a house. The building has painted roughcast walls topped by a graduated greenslate roof, with painted brick and roughcast chimney stacks. It is two storeys high, with two bays, and an adjoining barn to the right, partly under a common roof. A 20th-century door is set in a painted architrave. The windows are sash windows; those on the upper floor have glazing bars, all set in painted stone surrounds. The barn extends behind extensions flanking a large cart entrance. An extension to the left has a hipped slate roof and a casement window in a stone surround. A gabled extension to the right features a side plank door and a loft door above.
Local climate
Ruthwaite Cottage and Adjoining Barn 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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