Candlemas Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Candlemas Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ragged-transept-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Candlemas Cottage, Wreay, Carlisle, St. Cuthbert Without, CA4 0RJ
- OS grid reference
- NY 434 492
- Coordinates
- 54.83471, -2.88177
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Candlemas Cottage is a cottage formerly known as Cemetery Cottage, built around 1835 by Sarah Losh for the Sexton of Wreay Church. The cottage features dressed calciferous sandstone walls and a slate roof, with the bottom course made of stone-slates and a 20th-century brick chimney stack. It is one and a half storeys high and has two bays. The entrance includes a plank door set in a plain surround, flanked by two round-headed windows with matching surrounds; these windows are 20th-century two-light iron casements. The rear wall has similar round-headed windows, along with arched small round-headed attic windows, each containing five lights. There is a 20th-century flat-roofed extension on the left and a garage extension on the right, which are not included in the listing.
Local climate
Candlemas Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% 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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