The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- nether-sandstone-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Dean
- OS grid reference
- NY 094 247
- Coordinates
- 54.60999, -3.40314
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dated 1662, as indicated by the inscription over a window, with 19th century alterations and additions. It features painted roughcast walls and a graduated greenslate roof, topped with a painted rendered chimney stack. The building is two storeys high and consists of two bays, with a taller single-bay extension on the right. The entrance includes a six-panel door set in a painted stone surround, topped by a 20th century segmental wooden hood. The windows are 20th century diamond-paned casements within 19th century painted stone surrounds, which have hoodmoulds above them. At the rear, there are larger 20th century casement windows also in 19th century painted stone surrounds.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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