Laundry Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. A C17 House.
Laundry Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lunar-postern-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laundry Cottage, Skelton
- OS grid reference
- NY 458 355
- Coordinates
- 54.71216, -2.84153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laundry Cottage is a house dated 1675, with the inscription "T & IN" above the former entrance. It has an early 20th-century extension and alterations. The building is constructed of mixed slate and sandstone rubble, topped with a Welsh slate roof that features bottom courses of sandstone slates and cement-rendered rebuilt chimney stacks. The cottage is two storeys high and has two bays, with a single-storey, single-bay extension on the left.
The centre doorway has been partly blocked to create a sash window within a stone architrave, beneath the dated lintel. There are sash windows in original chamfered surrounds, with the right-side windows showing signs of removed stone mullions. The extension includes a 20th-century door and sash window in stone surrounds. At the rear, there is a small blocked 17th-century window, with the lintel inscribed "TN." The adjoining farm buildings are not of interest.
Local climate
Laundry 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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