School House and Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. House and cottage. 2 related planning applications.
School House and Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallen-step-khaki
- 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
- House and cottage
- Address
- School House and Cottage, Melbecks, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 952 982
- Coordinates
- 54.37938, -2.07479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The property comprises a house and cottage, built in the early 19th century and late 17th century respectively. The house is constructed of coursed stone with a stone slate roof. It has two first-floor windows and a central doorway featuring an ashlar surround with a round-arched head containing a keystone and voussoirs, quoined jambs, and a four-panel door beneath a plain fanlight. Sash windows are positioned below weather courses. The house has shaped kneelers, ashlar copings, and end stacks. Adjoining the house on the left is a cottage built of rubble with a stone slate roof. It has two storeys, with a two-light window on each floor, featuring a flush mullion. A chamfered surround frames the doorway on the right, where a board door is located. A stack is situated at the left end. The house served as the schoolmaster’s residence for the nearby Methodist School, which was built in 1855 and destroyed by fire in 1963.
Local climate
School House and Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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 — 3 transactions since 2005
- 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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