Kern Knotts 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.

Kern Knotts Cottage

WRENN ID
sombre-newel-khaki
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
Kern Knotts Cottage, the Green, Stainforth, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
SD 822 674
Coordinates
54.10227, -2.27232
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Kern Knotts Cottage is a Grade II listed cottage located in Stainforth, dated 1684 with 20th-century alterations. The building features slobbered rubble brought to course, stone dressings, and a slate roof. It is two storeys high and has three bays. The central entrance has a moulded surround and a decorated lintel inscribed with the letter "F," leading to a six-panel door.

On the ground floor, the left-hand side has a two-light chamfered mullioned window with an early 20th-century casement and fixed light, while the right side has a similar window but with a missing mullion and a casement from around 1970. The upper floor has three windows; the central window was originally a three-light double chamfered mullioned window but now retains only one mullion, reset to create two lights with an early 20th-century casement and fixed light. The outer two windows were originally two-light double chamfered windows, but their mullions are now missing. The cottage has gable end ridge stacks.

Local climate

Kern Knotts 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 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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