Maxwell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Maxwell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-lime-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Maxwell Cottage, Cummersdale
- OS grid reference
- NY 368 539
- Coordinates
- 54.87596, -2.9864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Maxwell Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage constructed from mixed red and yellow sandstone, featuring a slate roof and brick chimney stacks. The building stands two storeys high and consists of three bays. It has a 20th-century porch made of pebble-dashed brick with a wooden upper structure. The entrance and windows have plain stone surrounds, and there are two-pane sash windows along with a 20th-century door. To the right, there is a stone lean-to with a slate roof that is of contemporary date.
Local climate
Maxwell 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 52 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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