Froddle Crook is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Froddle Crook

WRENN ID
rooted-pedestal-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Froddle Crook, Wetheral, CA4 9SY
OS grid reference
NY 500 490
Coordinates
54.83366, -2.7795
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Froddle Crook is a cottage dated 1746, featuring the initials J.S on the lintel. It has red sandstone rubble walls and a steeply pitched stone-slate roof, along with dressed stone chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of two bays, with a recessed single bay extension to the left that shares the same roof. There are two entrances, each with plank doors and plain stone surrounds, one of which has an inscribed lintel. The cottage has 20th-century casements with glazing bars set in the original window openings.

Local climate

Froddle Crook sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 6 transactions since 2003
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • 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
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