Birkby Cottage Birkby House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. House. 3 related planning applications.
Birkby Cottage Birkby House
- WRENN ID
- worn-landing-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Birkby Cottage Birkby House, the Green, Crosscanonby, CA15 6RG
- OS grid reference
- NY 059 374
- Coordinates
- 54.72315, -3.46218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birkby House and Birkby Cottage are two adjoining houses built in the early 19th century. They feature painted stucco walls with angle pilasters and an eaves cornice, set on a chamfered plinth. The roofs are made of graduated greenslate, with Birkby Cottage having a hipped roof and both houses featuring stucco chimney stacks.
Birkby House is two storeys tall with three bays and has a single-storey, single-bay wing to the left, making it the higher of the two houses. It has a panelled door set within a Doric doorcase, and the windows are modern plastic casements with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds. The wing includes a Venetian window.
Birkby Cottage has a modern door with side lights within an Ionic doorcase. It features sash windows with glazing bars, including a double sash window above the entrance. Additionally, a modern garage door in Birkby Cottage is part of Birkby House.
Local climate
Birkby Cottage Birkby House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- 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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