West Gate Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
West Gate Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-nave-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- West Gate Cottage, Manor Road, LA13 0PJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 216 716
- Coordinates
- 54.13448, -3.20057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Gate Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been converted into a single dwelling, dated 1873. Designed by the architectural firm Paley and Austin for the Furness Railway Company, the building is constructed from red sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a tiled roof. The structure has an L-shaped plan, with a two-storey crosswing on the right and a one-storey, two-window sidewing that includes a porch at the angle. There is also a one-storey wing at the rear of the sidewing.
The exterior includes a chamfered plinth and large quoins. Windows are casements with glazing bars set in mullioned openings, featuring shouldered lights. The left sidewing has a buttress positioned between a three-light and a two-light window. An open-sided timber porch under a catslide roof is supported by turned balusters and pointed arches. The doorway leading into the crosswing has a roll-moulded, pointed arch.
In the crosswing, there are two two-light windows beneath a continuous dripmould, along with a three-light window and a slit in the coped gable. Both wings are adorned with decorative ridge cresting and ashlar ridge stacks with offsets, while a lateral stack is located on the right return of the crosswing. The left return of the sidewing features an altered pointed arch next to a two-light window, beneath a plaque that reads '1873/ WEST GATE COTTAGES'. Surviving plans for the building are dated 1872.
Local climate
West Gate Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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