The Ferns is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1969. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Ferns
- WRENN ID
- keen-pier-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1969
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Ferns, Main Street, Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, DL8 3AD
- OS grid reference
- SE 003 884
- Coordinates
- 54.29139, -1.99604
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ferns is a building that originally comprised three cottages and is now a single house. It dates from the early 18th century and the late 19th century. The structure is built of rubble with a stone slate roof and stands two storeys high. The front features four first-floor windows, along with an additional bay that projects forward to the left and does not have any first-floor windows. The openings are set beneath deep sandstone lintels. In the second bay, there is a four-panel door, and between the third and fourth bays, there is an additional window where a doorway to the right-hand cottage used to be. The projecting bay has a small sash window on the ground floor. The building has ashlar copings and stacks located at the ends and between the second and third bays. On the rear elevation, the projecting wing of the central cottage features a chamfered ashlar door surround. The right-hand cottage has two bays of two-light flush mullion windows with architraves, while the left-hand cottage has a three-light double-chamfered mullion window on the ground floor.
Local climate
The Ferns sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- 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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