Coffin Rest at Low Millgillhead in Garden Circa 35 Yards North East of House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1985. Coffin rest.
Coffin Rest at Low Millgillhead in Garden Circa 35 Yards North East of House
- WRENN ID
- inner-bastion-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1985
- Type
- Coffin rest
- OS grid reference
- NY 081 207
- Coordinates
- 54.57338, -3.4226
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The coffin rest at Low Millgillhead, located in the garden approximately 35 yards northeast of the house, dates from the 18th century, with later additions and alterations. It features a drystone plinth that is about 3 feet high, 8.5 feet long, and 4.5 feet wide, topped with a slab and a wall built over the north side. The central shaft is made of monolithic sandstone, standing around 4.5 feet high, and has stop-chamfers. This shaft may have originally been a sundial.
Local climate
Coffin Rest at Low Millgillhead in Garden Circa 35 Yards North East of House 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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