Beacon Light is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1988. Cottage.
Beacon Light
- WRENN ID
- cold-tallow-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Beacon Light, Austwick, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 783 696
- Coordinates
- 54.12218, -2.33202
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beacon Light is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with early 18th century and 20th century alterations. It is built of slobbered rubble with stone dressing and features a stone slate roof. The cottage has a two-room plan and is two storeys high with three bays. The right-hand side has a gabled entrance porch with an early 18th century surround, a basket-arched lintel, and a 20th century plank door. Above the entrance is a datestone inscribed with "IWM/1726".
On the ground floor, there are two windows: the left is a former two-light chamfered mullioned window with the mullion now missing, and the right is a former three-light chamfered mullioned window, also with missing mullions; both have slate hoodmoulds and 20th century casements. The upper floor has three windows: the left and the right of center are former two-light chamfered mullioned windows with missing mullions and 20th century casements, while the right-hand window is a 17th century chamfered window with a round-headed lintel and a fixed light. There is a ridge stack located to the left of center.
Inside, there is a 17th century stone window staircase and a reset early 18th century moulded stone surround to the fireplace, with a lintel decorated with an imitation keystone and a pulvinated frieze.
Local climate
Beacon Light 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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