Toll Bar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1983. Cottage.
Toll Bar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-groin-jet
- 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
- Toll Bar Cottage, Kempley Bank, Penrith
- OS grid reference
- NY 521 290
- Coordinates
- 54.65384, -2.7428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Toll Bar Cottage is an early 19th century single-storey cottage located on Kempley Bank. The building is roughcast with a new slate roof and features end chimneys. It has two new windows facing the road and one on the gable end, all set in plain stone architraves. The lower rear wing includes one modern window at the front and one on the gable end.
Local climate
Toll Bar Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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 1999
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