Midtown Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. House.
Midtown Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hollow-beam-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Midtown Cottage, Great Strickland
- OS grid reference
- NY 558 229
- Coordinates
- 54.59949, -2.68439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Midtown Cottage is a house built in the mid-18th century. It features whitewashed stone rubble walls and is topped with a graduated greenslate roof that has a brick chimney stack. The cottage is two storeys high and has two bays. The central entrance is a plank door, flanked by Yorkshire sash windows with glazing bars, all set within painted stone surrounds.
Local climate
Midtown Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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