The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pale-rampart-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Church Lane, Elvington, YO41 4AD
- OS grid reference
- SE 700 475
- Coordinates
- 53.91922, -0.93452
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house from the early 19th century, featuring later additions and alterations. It is constructed of rendered and whitewashed brick, topped with a roof made of plain tiles and Welsh slate. The building has two storeys and three bays, with a range extending to the rear. The central entrance consists of a six-fielded panel door with an overlight, set within a doorcase that includes fluted pilasters, a frieze, and a hood. The windows throughout the house are 16-pane sashes, and there are stacks at each end of the building.
Local climate
The 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings