Dark Wood Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 July 1984. Farm cottage.
Dark Wood Cottage
- WRENN ID
- night-stone-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 July 1984
- Type
- Farm cottage
- OS grid reference
- SE 065 134
- Coordinates
- 53.61757, -1.90284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dark Wood Cottage is a farm cottage dating from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble, with some areas having been rebuilt, and features a pitched stone slate roof that has been re-roofed. The cottage is two storeys high and built into the hillside.
On the southeast elevation, the ground floor has a doorway with a stone surround and tie-stones, along with one two-light stone mullioned window. The first floor features a four-light stone mullioned window. The northeast gable has a doorway with a stone surround and tie-stones leading to the first floor. The southwest gable has two single-light windows on the first floor. The northwest elevation has a central doorway to the first floor, which is now blocked. The building is set back into the earth.
Local climate
Dark Wood Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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