Squire's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. A C18 Cottage.
Squire's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tangled-corner-harvest
- 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
- Squire's Cottage, 8, Biggar Village
- OS grid reference
- SD 191 661
- Coordinates
- 54.08517, -3.23706
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Squire's Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage located in Biggar Village on Walney Island. It is built of roughcast stone and features a graduated slate roof. The cottage has two storeys and displays two windows on the first floor. The entrance is at the gable end, and there is a wing at the rear. The front facade includes three 16-pane sash windows on the ground floor and two on the first floor, all with projecting stone sills. The right side of the building has a shaped kneeler and ashlar gable copings, along with end stacks. The right return features a 20th-century part-glazed door beneath a slate canopy and two 12-pane sash windows on the first floor.
Local climate
Squire's 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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