Keepers Cottage and Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1990. House.

Keepers Cottage and Hill House

WRENN ID
under-floor-lake
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
House
Address
Keepers Cottage and Hill House, Westerdale, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
NZ 648 040
Coordinates
54.42803, -1.0015
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Keeper's Cottage and Hill House is a house that has now been divided into two units. It dates from the early to mid-18th century and was extended in the early 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone, with the older left section featuring herringbone tooling and the right section having random tooling. The roof is pantiled, with some parts recently renewed.

The house has two storeys and consists of six bays. The left section has a rebated doorway, which may have originally been a barn door, and small modern casement windows above it. The main four-bay house is made up of two parts: the 18th-century section has been raised and re-windowed to match the early 19th-century extension. There is a boarded door with a blocked fanlight in the third bay, and heavy lintels with projecting cills support late 20th-century small-paned casements in the older openings. The building features a plain plinth, a roof with a stone ridge, copings, and curved kneelers, as well as corniced stacks at the ends and junctions.

Inside, the 18th-century part contains a complete early cottage fireplace, which includes an oven, boiler, racks, pulleys, and a large cauldron. The later section features a good open-well staircase with a ramped handrail, turned newels, square balusters, and carved tread ends. There are also six-panel doors, one marble chimney-piece, and two iron basket grates. The building was empty and undergoing restoration at the time of the survey.

Local climate

Keepers Cottage and Hill House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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