Wesley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. Former chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Wesley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-beam-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1984
- Type
- Former chapel
- Address
- Wesley Cottage, Chapel Lane, Scaleby Hill, CA6 4LY
- OS grid reference
- NY 439 636
- Coordinates
- 54.96393, -2.87653
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wesley Cottage is a former Methodist Chapel dating to 1828, with a porch added in 1883. Constructed of whitewashed sandstone rubble with painted quoins, the building has a graduated slate roof with stone hips. It is a small, single-story structure, two bays wide. A projecting porch of red sandstone with a slate roof features panel doors and a glazed fanlight; the pointed arch has a false keystone, and an inscribed stone above reads "WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL" with the date. This stone was originally positioned above the former entrance. Flanking casement windows with glazing bars are set within plain stone surrounds and have pointed arches and false keystones. Replacement casement windows on the side have glazing bars, plain stone surrounds, flat arches, shutter hinge brackets, and retaining catches. At the time of its original listing, the interior contained late 19th-century pews, a lectern, and an organ. A corner pulpit/altar rail of moulded wood was fitted with twisted cast iron rails.
Local climate
Wesley Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 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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