Rainbow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. A C19 Cottage.
Rainbow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- long-keystone-aspen
- 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
- Rainbow Cottage, 10, Biggar Village
- OS grid reference
- SD 191 661
- Coordinates
- 54.08512, -3.23672
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rainbow Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone and features a graduated slate roof. The building has two storeys and a single window on the first floor at the entrance front. The entrance front includes a part-glazed door to the left of a tall 20th-century casement window, with a similar window directly above on the first floor. The left end of the roof is hipped, and there is a ridge stack located near the hip. On the left side facing the lane, there are shorter casement windows on each floor, both with projecting stone sills. The cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Rainbow 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
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