White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House.

White Cottage

WRENN ID
little-chancel-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
White Cottage, Burgh by Sands
OS grid reference
NY 308 588
Coordinates
54.91998, -3.08022
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White Cottage is a late 17th-century building that consists of two houses now combined into one. The structure features cement rendered clay walls set on large projecting granite plinth stones, topped with a Welsh slate roof that has lower courses made of sandstone slates. The right end wall is constructed of brick on cobbles, and the eaves have been raised in height, with 20th-century brick chimney stacks added. The left side of the building is a two-storey, two-bay house, while the right side is a single-storey, four-bay house with a lower roof line. A plank door is located on the left, framed by a wooden architrave, and there are small 20th-century casement windows, some of which are in their original openings. Inside, the right side of the house contains one pair of upper crucks, with others removed when the roof was raised in the 19th century. There is a large clay hood over the inglenook, with a beam supported by a 20th-century heck post. At the time of the survey, the building was undergoing sympathetic restoration.

Local climate

White 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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