The Limes and Lilac Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. House.

The Limes and Lilac Cottage

WRENN ID
burning-span-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
The Limes and Lilac Cottage, Langwathby
OS grid reference
NY 566 323
Coordinates
54.68476, -2.67465
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Limes and Lilac Cottage is a house and former stables, now divided into two dwellings, dating from the early 18th century with 20th-century alterations and additions. The building features red sandstone rubble walls beneath a graduated red sandstone slate roof, which has rebuilt red sandstone chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and consists of four bays, with the right side being a four-bay former stable under a common roof. There is a 20th-century extension on the right side.

An off-centre 20th-century door is set in an 18th-century chamfered stone surround. The building has sash windows in original chamfered surrounds, including a three-light flat stone-mullioned window and a right fire window to the right of the door. The former stables have a blocked 18th-century doorway at the junction with the house and a blocked loft doorway. The sash windows in the stables, some with glazing bars, are set in 20th-century red sandstone surrounds. Lilac Cottage occupies the right two bays of the stables, while the 20th-century right extension is not of significant interest.

Local climate

The Limes and Lilac 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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