Flimby Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1977. Lodge.
Flimby Cottage
- WRENN ID
- open-landing-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1977
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Flimby Cottage, Main Road, Maryport
- OS grid reference
- NY 023 342
- Coordinates
- 54.69405, -3.51658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Flimby Cottage is an early 19th-century Gothick lodge located on the west side of Main Road in Maryport. The building is two storeys high and has a pebble-dashed exterior with a hipped slate roof featuring tall stacks at both ends. It has three windows on the upper floor, two of which are arched, while the center window is oval and includes glazing bars. On the ground floor, there are two arched windows with Gothick glazing and a smaller central window without glazing bars. To the left, there is a one-storey section that contains one Gothick window and a door set in a stone surround.
Local climate
Flimby Cottage 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings