Harden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. Cottage.
Harden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-passage-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1958
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Harden Cottage, Clapham Road, Austwick, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 765 682
- Coordinates
- 54.10973, -2.36063
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harden Cottage is a cottage dated 1719 with 20th-century alterations. It is constructed from strap pointed rubble with stone dressings and has a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and features a double front.
On the garden front, the entrance is located to the left of the centre and has rusticated jambs with bolection moulding in a segmental profile, similar to Rose Cottage in Clapham. The entrance features a decorated lintel with an imitation pediment and decoration that mimics 17th-century style, along with the date and initials WK and MK. The door is from the 20th century and has a hoodmould above it. There are two windows on each storey; the ground floor windows were altered around 1970 and are sashes, while the upper floor windows have moulded surrounds and casements. Massive 20th-century buttresses flank the entrance, and there are gable end ridge stacks.
Local climate
Harden Cottage 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 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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