Cottage 20 Metres to North of Higher Ashes is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1984. A Early Modern Cottage.

Cottage 20 Metres to North of Higher Ashes

WRENN ID
first-railing-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1984
Type
Cottage
Period
Early Modern
OS grid reference
SD 948 254
Coordinates
53.72548, -2.07977
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The cottage, located 20 meters north of Higher Ashes, is now used as a garage. It features an inscribed door lintel that reads 'I S 1714'. The building is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and has a stone slate roof. It is a single-storey structure. The south front includes a doorway with composite jambs and a chamfered surround. On either side of the doorway, there are double chamfered mullioned windows with two lights, although the mullion has been removed. The cottage has coped gables with kneelers and a reduced stack. The left-hand return wall features a garage door.

Local climate

Cottage 20 Metres to North of Higher Ashes sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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