Stank Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1966. Workers' houses.
Stank Cottages
- WRENN ID
- young-keep-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1966
- Type
- Workers' houses
- Address
- Stank Cottages, 4 and 5, Sandy Gate, Harewood
- OS grid reference
- SE 305 447
- Coordinates
- 53.89816, -1.53722
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stank Cottages are a pair of estate workers' houses built in the mid to late 18th century by John Carr for Edwin Lascelles, 1st Lord Harewood. They are constructed from punch-dressed stone and feature stone slate roofs, with a T-shaped plan and two storeys. The symmetrical facade has seven bays, with the central three bays being taller, set forward, and gabled, flanked by two-bay wings. There is a continuous ashlar plinth and an impost band above the ground-floor windows, while the first-floor sill band is present only on the central three bays. The ground-floor bays contain round-arched windows and doorways with stone surrounds. The central three bays have 12-pane sash windows with a fixed upper light and 9-pane sashes above, all in plain stone surrounds. The gable is coped and pedimented. The wings have altered windows with raised sills and a single sash window above. The sixth bay features a doorway with a glazed fanlight. Each wing has a ridge stack and a stack at the junction with the central three bays, contributing to the balanced composition of the building.
Local climate
Stank Cottages receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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