Pompeian Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
Pompeian Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-lead-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pompeian Cottage, St. Cuthbert Without, CA4 0RL
- OS grid reference
- NY 433 490
- Coordinates
- 54.83278, -2.8831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pompeian Cottage is a house built around 1830 by Sarah Losh, designed as a replica of a house excavated at Pompeii. The structure features calcareous sandstone rubble walls and a slate roof, with the bottom courses made of stone-slates. It is two storeys high and consists of a single bay with a single bay extension to the right, which shares the same roof, as well as an extension to the rear. The cottage has 2-light casement windows, a sloping half gable roof, and brick chimney stacks. The gabled two-storey extension at the rear of the single bay now serves as the entrance. Sarah Losh, who traveled extensively in Italy, incorporated many architectural ideas from her travels into her designs, and this cottage was built for the village schoolmaster.
Local climate
Pompeian 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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