Mint Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1975. House. 1 related planning application.

Mint Cottage

WRENN ID
plain-obsidian-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 February 1975
Type
House
Address
Mint Cottage, Gilthwaiterigg Lane, Kendal, LA9 6NT
OS grid reference
SD 520 944
Coordinates
54.34315, -2.73883
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mint Cottage is a house that was built in 1821, as indicated by the initials and date inscribed in Roman lettering on a panel on the east side. The building has undergone later additions and alterations. It features rendered rubble with a stucco band at the first floor and has graduated slate roofs along with rendered chimneys. The house is two storeys high and has a symmetrical main block with three bays. The entrance consists of a 20th-century glazed door set in a semicircular-headed surround, with segment-headed sash windows in recesses on either side and three sashes above. There is a 20th-century single-storey extension to the left and a lower two-storey wing to the right, which may have been a former outbuilding, featuring a French window and a 20th-century casement window on the first floor.

Local climate

Mint Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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