Shepherds Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1990. Cottage, barn. 1 related planning application.
Shepherds Cottage
- WRENN ID
- white-chamber-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1990
- Type
- Cottage, barn
- Address
- Shepherds Cottage, Danby Head, Danby, North Yorkshire, YO21 2NN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 687 044
- Coordinates
- 54.43061, -0.94096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shepherds Cottage is a former cottage and barn, dated 1795, with the initials W and MD on a door lintel, although the barn may be older. The building is constructed from coursed, tooled sandstone and features a pantiled roof. It consists of three sections: a one-storey, one-bay cottage on the left and a two-storey barn with five irregular bays. The cottage has a Dutch door beneath the dated lintel and a three-light chamfered mullioned window to the left, although one light is blocked and one mullion has been removed. There is a corniced stack at the left end. The main range of the barn has four Dutch doors, one of which is under a lintel dated 1777. On the upper floor, there is one loading door, one blacksmith's window, and four slit vents located under the eaves. The right bay of the barn is canted back, and it features stepped eaves and stone gable copings on square kneelers.
Inside, there is a stout upper cruck truss that is halved at the apex.
Local climate
Shepherds Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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