Keepers Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1954. House. 2 related planning applications.
Keepers Cottages
- WRENN ID
- quartered-rafter-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- Keepers Cottages, Horton
- OS grid reference
- SD 827 496
- Coordinates
- 53.94262, -2.26356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keepers Cottages is a pair of houses from the mid-18th century, constructed of rubble with roofs made of slate and stone slate. The buildings consist of two one-bay pavilions, each two storeys high, connected by a recessed linking wall. Each pavilion features a gable designed as an open pediment with mutules and has a continuous string course. The windows in the pavilions are sashed with glazing bars, plain reveals, and semi-circular heads. The central linking section is now two storeys tall, rendered, and has modern windows. The ground floor windows, located behind a modern conservatory, appear to have original surrounds with keystones, while the upper storey is likely an addition. The chimneys are located on the outer side walls of the pavilions.
Local climate
Keepers Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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