Blue Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1987. Cottage.
Blue Cottages
- WRENN ID
- sharp-kitchen-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Blue Cottages, 36 and 38, South End, Osmotherley, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 457 969
- Coordinates
- 54.36575, -1.29796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blue Cottages are two cottages located in Osmotherley, dating from the early to mid-19th century. They are constructed from coursed, squared stone and feature a Welsh slate roof.
No 38 is two storeys high with one bay. It has a board door to the left and a 12-pane side-sliding sash window with a stone sill in the center, both of which are topped with hoodmoulds. The first floor has a similar window to that below. The cottage has shaped kneelers, stone coping, and end stacks.
No 36 is attached to the right of No 38 and is one storey tall with five bays. It features a board door to the left of the right-hand bay, and the windows are 12-pane side-sliding sashes with stone sills, all with hoodmoulds. The roof is hipped to the right and has a ridge stack.
Local climate
Blue Cottages receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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