Sprague Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1986. House.
Sprague Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-brass-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Bridlington and The Wolds MP: Charlie Dewhirst (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sprague Cottage, Town Street, Shipton Thorpe
- OS grid reference
- SE 852 435
- Coordinates
- 53.88092, -0.70486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sprague Cottage is a house dating from the mid-18th century, constructed of brown brick with a pantiled roof. It features a lobby entry and stands two storeys tall with three bays. There is a boarded door located under a segmental head between the first and second bays. The ground floor has four 12-pane unequal sash windows, while the first floor has a band and three 12-pane unequal sash windows with a lintel band above. The building is adorned with a stepped brick eaves cornice, axial stacks, and raised gables.
Local climate
Sprague Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 13 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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