Stay House and attached cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 1990. Farmhouse and cottage.

Stay House and attached cottage

WRENN ID
turning-cellar-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North York Moors National Park
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 February 1990
Type
Farmhouse and cottage
Address
Stay House and attached cottage, Kepwick, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
SE 472 912
Coordinates
54.3147, -1.27563
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Stay House and the attached cottage are a farmhouse and cottage built in the early 18th century, with elements from the early and late 19th century. The structure features coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and has pantile roofs, along with a single lateral stack and three ridge stacks. It is two storeys tall plus garrets.

The west front includes a projecting gabled cross wing on the left, which has a single glazing bar sash window on each floor and a small garret window above. The side front has two glazing bar sashes on each floor. The main front features a doorway on the left with a Gothic panel door and an overlight, next to a large plain sash window and a smaller window beyond. Above this, there is a central two-light sliding sash window with glazing bars, flanked by small casement windows.

To the east, there is a two-storey rear wing with two plain sash windows on each floor. Further back, there is a single-storey wing with a three-light mullion window facing south and three plain sash windows on the east side. There is also an additional rear wing to the northeast.

Inside, the building contains an early 19th-century single flight staircase and a panelled room featuring a bolection moulded fireplace. There are two similar fireplaces in the rooms above, each with raised and fielded over panels.

Local climate

Stay House and attached cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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