Moorgates Cottages and Attached Yard Walls is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1989. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Moorgates Cottages and Attached Yard Walls
- WRENN ID
- endless-lantern-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 July 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Moorgates Cottages and Attached Yard Walls, Goathland, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 844 994
- Coordinates
- 54.3837, -0.70111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moorgates Cottages and attached yard walls are a pair of cottages built around 1845 by G.T. Andrews for the York and North Midland Railway Company. They are constructed from hammered sandstone with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with a slate roof. The cottages are two stories high and feature a two-window front. Each cottage has a board door located in a gabled timber porch, with two 3-light casement windows positioned between them. On the first floor, there are similar 2-light windows in gabled half dormers. The windows are set in quoined and chamfered openings, with chamfered mullions, plain lintels, and pointed relieving arches above the ground floor openings. The cottages have overhanging eaves and a central ridge stack. At the rear, there is a single-story section with a catslide roof. The attached yard wall is approximately 1.25 meters high, sloping up to about 2.25 meters, with shaped coping. These cottages were originally built for the keepers of the Moorgates level crossing but became obsolete with the opening of the Whitby to Pickering Deviation Line around 1865. They are included for their historic interest.
Local climate
Moorgates Cottages and Attached Yard Walls receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 2006
- 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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