Riddings West is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Riddings West
- WRENN ID
- tilted-column-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Riddings West, Melbecks, North Yorkshire, DL11 6PR
- OS grid reference
- SD 981 983
- Coordinates
- 54.38019, -2.02959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Riddings West is a pair of cottages built around 1700 and in the mid-18th century. They are constructed from coursed watershot rubble and topped with a stone slate roof. The cottages are two storeys high and feature a total of two first-floor windows. Each cottage has one bay window and a doorway on the right side, with openings that have ashlar sandstone surrounds. The doorway on the left, dating from around 1700, has quoined jambs, a moulded arris, and a board door. The doorway on the right has interrupted jambs and also features a board door. The cottages have 4-pane sash windows and ashlar copings. There are ridge stacks located at the left and centre of the roof. At the rear, there is an outshut with single-light chamfered windows.
Local climate
Riddings West sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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 — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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