Larch Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House.

Larch Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
narrow-shingle-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North York Moors National Park
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1987
Type
House
Address
Larch Tree Cottage, Rosedale East Side, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
SE 723 959
Coordinates
54.35388, -0.88878
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Larch Tree Cottage is an old police house that has been converted into a residential home. It dates from the late 18th century and was altered and extended in 1897, as indicated by a datestone, with further modifications made in the 20th century. The building features dressed sandstone, which includes reused herringbone-tooled sandstone on the front and right side, while the rear is constructed from coursed rubble sandstone. It has a pantile roof and a brick chimney.

The cottage is two stories tall with a two-window front and has a single-storey, three-bay cell block extension to the left. The main front has a renewed board door to the right set in a chamfered opening. The windows are 20th-century top-opening lights, with the ground floor left window featuring a chamfered lintel. To the right of the door, there is a stone inscribed with "VR DJ 1897 JK." The gables are coped, and there is a stack to the left of the center.

In the cell block extension, there is a renewed board door to the right of two small-pane casement windows. All openings have plain stone lintels, and there is a coped gable on the left with an end stack. At the rear of the cell block extension, there are three small blocked cell windows with flat surrounds. On the right side, there is a six-pane fixed-light window in a chamfered opening with a roughly herringbone-tooled lintel.

Inside the cell block, there are three cells that still have their original nail-studded doors and iron-barred inspection windows. The building is included in the heritage listing for its historical interest.

Local climate

Larch Tree 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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