Moor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1976. A C18 House. 4 related planning applications.
Moor Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-parapet-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Moor Cottage, Wells Road, Ilkley, LS29 9JG
- OS grid reference
- SE 118 472
- Coordinates
- 53.9211, -1.82177
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moor Cottage is an 18th-century country cottage located on Wells Road, Ilkley. It is a two-storey building constructed of dressed coursed stone, which has been painted. The roof is covered with stone slabs. The west front features an unmoulded pediment spanning the entire width, enclosing an oval oculus. It has three sash windows with glazing bars; the lower side windows have been altered to be 2-storey bay windows with sashes. The north front also has three sash windows, with the side windows being 2-storey bay windows. A central door has an overlight and six moulded panels. Decorative paired gutter blocks are present. The cottage abuts No. 1 Crossbeck Road, which faces it at a right angle to the south.
Local climate
Moor Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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