Rock Head Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 January 1990. Cottage.

Rock Head Cottage

WRENN ID
stony-plinth-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North York Moors National Park
Constituency
Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 January 1990
Type
Cottage
Address
Rock Head Cottage, Skelder Road, Hutton Mulgrave, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
NZ 843 112
Coordinates
54.48955, -0.69931
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rock Head Cottage is a Grade II listed building, likely dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of coursed sandstone with various toolings and features a pantiled roof with a stone ridge, copings, and kneelers, along with rebuilt brick stacks. The cottage is two storeys high and has three narrow bays.

On the right side, there is a projecting lean-to porch that includes a small front window and a boarded door on the left side. To the left, there is a later 19th-century one-bar casement window. The first floor has a modern three-light small-paned casement window in the center, a four-pane fixed light with a single opening pane on the left, and a small modern casement window on the right, which may have replaced what was originally a five-window opening. The building has end chimneys and block kneelers, with a further lower pent extension beyond the porch. The left return is blank.

The rear elevation features a blocked door with a small window inserted on the left side. On the right side, there are three-light small-paned modern casements on the first floor, set in original openings that have wedge lintels and raised keystones, with the ground floor having a triple window and stone cills.

Local climate

Rock Head Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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