Cock House and Grisedale is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. A Early C19 House.
Cock House and Grisedale
- WRENN ID
- stranded-lead-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cock House and Grisedale, Langcliffe, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 821 649
- Coordinates
- 54.08044, -2.27396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cock House and Grisedale is a former workhouse and overseers house, now divided into two residences, dating from the early 19th century. The building is rendered with stone dressings and has a slate roof. It stands three storeys high and has two bays. The central entrance to Cock House features a plain surround and 1970s doors. Each floor has two windows with plain surrounds, projecting sills, and 16-pane sash windows. The roof is hipped and has eaves modillions.
The left-hand return is constructed of slobbered rubble and also stands three storeys tall with three bays. The entrance to the former overseers house, now Grisedale, is located to the left of centre and has a plain surround with a 1970s plank door. This section includes three ground floor windows, two first floor windows, and three second floor windows, all with plain surrounds, projecting sills, and 16-pane sashes. The eaves also feature modillions, and there is a ridge stack on the left-hand gable end and another ridge stack to the right of the entrance.
Local climate
Cock House and Grisedale sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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