Mizpah Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Mizpah Cottage
- WRENN ID
- calm-mortar-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mizpah Cottage, Rigton Green, Bardsey Cum Rigton, LS17 9AR
- OS grid reference
- SE 372 438
- Coordinates
- 53.88925, -1.43502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mizpah Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage situated on Rigton Green, positioned at the junction of two roads. It is constructed of random rubble with a red tile roof. The cottage follows a two-cell direct-entry plan, with an outshut to the side. It is a single-story building with two windows to the left of the doorway, featuring deep margin-dressed lintels and projecting sills. A mid-20th century wood-and-glass storm porch has been added over the doorway. A ridge stack is present. To the right, the outshut is slightly set back; it originally had a small window and a lean-to roof, although the roof has been raised and altered to a flat design.
The interior originally comprised an unheated first cell and a larger, second cell with a deep chimney breast. The cottage is notable as a squatter's encroachment on Rigton Green, utilising a corner of the green.
Local climate
Mizpah Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% 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 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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 — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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