Ghyll Head Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1988. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Ghyll Head Cottages
- WRENN ID
- lunar-pier-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1988
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Ghyll Head Cottages, Townhead, Horton in Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire, BD24 0EX
- OS grid reference
- SD 811 722
- Coordinates
- 54.14594, -2.29036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ghyll Head Cottages, originally a farmhouse, now consists of two cottages dating from the mid to late 17th century, with 19th and 20th-century alterations. The right-hand cottage features pebbledash with painted stone dressings and a slate roof. It has two storeys and two bays. The entrance on the left is in an early 20th-century porch with a plain surround, leading to a six-panel door with the upper four panels glazed. The right-hand ground floor has a 20th-century casement window. On the upper floor, there is a left-hand basket arched chamfered window and a right-hand three-light chamfered mullioned window, which includes casements and fixed lights. A ridge stack is located on the right-hand gable end. The left-hand cottage is constructed of limewashed rubble with a slate roof. Its upper floor features a former two-light chamfered mullioned window, although the mullion is now missing and the sill has been lowered. There is a projecting ridge stack on the left-hand gable end.
Local climate
Ghyll Head Cottages 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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