Bishop Yards Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1983. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

Bishop Yards Cottage

WRENN ID
guardian-gateway-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
Bishop Yards Cottage, Penrith, CA11 7XU
OS grid reference
NY 517 301
Coordinates
54.66399, -2.75027
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bishop Yards Cottage is an 18th-century building featuring scored stucco over stone and an old slate roof. The cottage is two storeys high with a gable end facing the front. It has a modern door and two 12-paned sash windows on each floor, all set in plain stone cases.

Local climate

Bishop Yards Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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