Herdsmans Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1983. Cottage.
Herdsmans Cottage
- WRENN ID
- strange-step-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Central MP: Rachael Maskell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Herdsmans Cottage, 159, Mount Vale
- OS grid reference
- SE 592 507
- Coordinates
- 53.94931, -1.09918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Herdsman's Cottage is a house built around 1840, constructed of brick in Flemish bond with a blue tile damp proof course and a slate roof. This single-storey cottage has an attic and features a cruciform plan typical of cottage orne style. The gables each have one bay with cusped bargeboards, which originally had hollow pendants at the sides and apex, although the pendants are now missing from the apexes of the north and south gables and from the right-hand side of the south gable. The windows are casements, and the north gable includes a single-storey timber canted bay window with a cornice and two lights facing forward. The front door, located to the right of the gable, has two raised and fielded panels and is sheltered by a timber lattice porch with a gable finial. The attic window in the west gable has been replaced in the 20th century. To the right of the cottage is a brick outhouse addition, and a 20th-century back door is set back to the right of the south gable. A central chimney stack features a stone cornice. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Herdsmans Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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