Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1990. A C18 House, former school, former post office. 1 related planning application.

Church Cottage

WRENN ID
quiet-pier-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
York
Constituency
York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1990
Type
House, former school, former post office
Address
Church Cottage, Main Street, Wheldrake, YO19 6AW
OS grid reference
SE 682 449
Coordinates
53.89666, -0.96275
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Cottage is a house that was originally a school and former Post Office. It dates from the early 18th century, with a late 18th-century addition. The building is constructed of red brick and features pantile roofs with two gable stacks. The earlier section has raised and tumbled brick gables. It is two stories high and has three bays.

To the west, there is a single bay from the early 18th century, which has a single plank door now covered by a 20th-century wooden gabled porch. To the left of this door, there is a three-light sliding sash window, with a similar window located above it. To the east, the lower two-bay late 18th-century range has dentilated eaves. The ground floor features two three-light sliding sash windows with shallow segment heads, and above these are two similar windows along with a small casement. Inside, the cottage contains chamfered beams.

Local climate

Church 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 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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