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

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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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