Office Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1984. House.
Office Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-stone-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Office Cottage, Farlam
- OS grid reference
- NY 567 598
- Coordinates
- 54.93158, -2.67658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Office Cottage is a house that was formerly a colliery office, built around 1836 with some additions made in the mid-19th century. It was constructed for the Earl of Carlisle's collieries and the lessee, James Thompson. The building is made of hammer-dressed calciferous sandstone, featuring red sandstone quoins and dressings, and has a hipped Welsh slate roof with red brick and stone chimney stacks. It is a single-storey structure with two bays and an offset parallel extension at the rear, which shares similar architectural details. The entrance features a plank door with a rusticated surround and a hood mould. The double sash windows, which include glazing bars, also have similar surrounds and hood moulds. The collieries were mostly closed by the National Coal Board in 1953. The cottage is listed partly for its group value with the nearby Kirkhouse Farmhouse.
Local climate
Office 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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