Corisca Cottage and Adjoining Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House, cottages.

Corisca Cottage and Adjoining Cottages

WRENN ID
tenth-cornice-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House, cottages
Address
Corisca Cottage and Adjoining Cottages, CA5 7AA
OS grid reference
NY 374 493
Coordinates
54.83544, -2.97484
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Corsica Cottage and the adjoining cottages are a house and outbuildings dating from the late 17th century, with early and mid-18th century features and a 19th-century extension. The main house has incised painted stucco over red sandstone rubble, with the left end bay made of painted 19th-century brick. It has a Welsh slate roof with lower courses of sandstone slates and coped gables, along with 20th-century brick chimney stacks. The central outbuildings feature cobble walls on a painted plinth with flush red sandstone quoins, a steeply pitched Welsh slate roof with a bottom course of sandstone slates, and brick chimney stacks. The outbuilding to the right has cement render over clay, with part of the front wall made of 20th-century brick, and a steeply pitched Welsh slate roof with brick chimney stacks.

The main house is two stories high with three bays, and there is a single-bay extension to the left under a common roof. To the right are two former houses, each two stories and two bays, and to the extreme right is a single-storey, three-bay original house. The main entrance features a plank door in a painted stone surround, and there are sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds. The end bay has a 19th-century sash window beneath a painted lintel with a painted stone sill, and a 19th-century Yorkshire sash window above it. The central outbuilding has plank doors, one of which is in a quoined surround, and casement windows in original 18th-century painted stone surrounds. The original house has undergone extensive 20th-century alterations, with the rear wall featuring a door and windows in 18th-century surrounds. Inside, there is one pair of full crucks.

Local climate

Corisca Cottage and Adjoining Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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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