Keeper's Cottage and Outbuildings to Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. House, outbuildings.
Keeper's Cottage and Outbuildings to Rear
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1984
- Type
- House, outbuildings
- Address
- Keeper's Cottage and Outbuildings to Rear, Glassonby
- OS grid reference
- NY 577 388
- Coordinates
- 54.74257, -2.65851
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keeper's Cottage and the outbuildings behind it date back to 1640, with the initials M.R. found on a re-set stone near the rear entrance. The cottage features red sandstone rubble walls and a Welsh slate roof, along with stone chimney stacks. It is two stories high and has four bays. The entrance includes a plank door with a plain stone surround. The windows are sash style with glazing bars and plain stone surrounds, while the original window to the left has a chamfered surround and is mullioned. Inside, the ground floor has beamed ceilings and oak plank doors. The former byres and outbuildings at the rear are one and two stories tall, constructed with similar stonework and sandstone slate roofs. These outbuildings feature half plank doors and external stone steps leading to a side loft door, as well as an arched cart entrance to the right.
Local climate
Keeper's Cottage and Outbuildings to Rear 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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