Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Garden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-vault-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Garden Cottage, Rockcliffe, CA6 4DS
- OS grid reference
- NY 394 608
- Coordinates
- 54.93854, -2.94692
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage that served as the gardener's residence for Harker Lodge. It features rendered walls and a Welsh slate roof, along with rendered chimney stacks. The cottage is single storey and has three bays. The entrance includes a four-panel door with a glazed fanlight, framed by a raised stone surround with a moulded cornice. There is a sash window with glazing bars and stone sills. The cottage is built into the surrounding garden wall of Harker Lodge and is included in the listing for its group value.
Local climate
Garden Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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.
- 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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