Quaker Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. House.
Quaker Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-sill-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Quaker Cottage, Off B5320 (North Side), Tirril, Sockbridge and Tirril, CA10 2JE
- OS grid reference
- NY 501 266
- Coordinates
- 54.63266, -2.77444
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Quaker Cottage, originally a Quaker Meeting House, dates from 1731 but has the date 1733 above the entrance. The building features painted roughcast walls and a graduated greenslate roof, topped with a painted roughcast chimney stack. It is a single-storey structure with three bays. The off-centre gabled stone porch has a plain boarded door set in a painted stone surround. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are framed by painted stone surrounds, with the central window being a larger casement; some of the surrounds still have their shutter hinge brackets. Inside, the cottage retains its original panelled partition. Historical references indicate that the Meeting House was first used on 3 February 1731, and it is suggested that the porch was added two years later, explaining the date above the entrance. The rear outshut is not of interest.
Local climate
Quaker Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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