Low Key Green Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1989. House.
Low Key Green Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-basalt-plum
- 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
- House
- Address
- Low Key Green Cottage, Egton, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- NZ 802 047
- Coordinates
- 54.43167, -0.76392
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Key Green Cottage is a house with an attached outbuilding, dating from the early 18th century, with the outbuilding rebuilt in the 19th century and some alterations made in the 20th century. The cottage was originally cruck-framed and is now encased in rubble sandstone, while the rebuilt section features hammered sandstone and has pantile roofs.
The building is 1½ stories high with a two-bay house that is positioned to the left of a one-story, 2½-bay range of outbuildings. There is a 20th-century cross-passage door at the left end of the outbuilding range. To the right, there are two windows, one of which pivots and the other is partly blocked, all featuring hammered lintels. The eaves are corbelled, and the right end gable is coped.
On the house front, there is a fixed-light fire window beneath a rough timber lintel to the left of the door, a 20th-century three-light casement further left, and an enlarged 20th-century window at the left end. A small light has been inserted in the first floor above the ground floor casement. The gables are coped, and there are end stacks.
Inside, the ground floor rooms to the left of the cross passage feature chamfer-stopped beams and chamfered square-section joists. In the attic room to the left of the cross passage, there is a pair of crossed-apex upper crucks that are raised on a fireplace bressummer.
Local climate
Low Key Green Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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