West View and Cobble Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
West View and Cobble Cottage
- WRENN ID
- outer-keep-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- West View and Cobble Cottage, Main Street, Dent, Westmorland and Furness, LA10 5QL
- OS grid reference
- SD 704 870
- Coordinates
- 54.27802, -2.45476
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of cottages built in the late 17th or early 18th century, with alterations made in the mid to later 19th century. They are constructed of roughly coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, the rear walls are whitewashed, and they have a stone slate roof. The cottages are arranged in a single depth, with two units facing west on a north-south axis, and the rear overlooking the churchyard.
West View, on the left, has a 19th-century square-headed doorway with a part-glazed door and a large rectangular lintel with a simple hoodmould. It also features a small square window with a stone surround, a large six-pane window to the left, and two further large six-pane windows on the first floor, all now top-hung casements designed to resemble sash windows. Cobble Cottage, to the right, has a similarly styled doorway, with old quoining on the left jamb, a six-pane sash window to the right, and another above it. The cottages have gable chimneys; the one on the right is square and positioned just inside the gable wall. The rear wall, which stands three stories high, has four small windows on each main floor, all with four-pane glazing. Most are square, except for the oblong windows in the centre of the ground floor which have narrow side lights. A small, blocked one-light window is located on the second floor to the right.
The interior has not been inspected. The cottages form part of a prominent town centre group, with the Church of St Andrew to the rear and the Sun Hotel opposite.
Local climate
West View and Cobble Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 15 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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