Watch House is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1973. A Early C19 Cottage.
Watch House
- WRENN ID
- carved-bailey-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Watch House, Boathouse Yard, Hinderwell, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- NZ 782 188
- Coordinates
- 54.55926, -0.79149
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Watch House is a cottage from the early 19th century, rendered and likely built on a stone base. The roof has been renewed with large clay pantiles. The building is two storeys high, featuring one bay on the front and two bays on the gable end. It has 19th-century sash windows set under stone lintels, with the ground floor windows in splayed reveals, along with a modern part-glazed door. The Watch House is included as part of the Boathouse Yard group.
Local climate
Watch House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
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