High Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. A C18 Cottage.
High Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-cupola-clover
- 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
- High Cottage, Blades, Melbecks, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 979 985
- Coordinates
- 54.38259, -2.03273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 18th century, with some later alterations. It is constructed of rubble and has a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and features two first floor windows. On the right side, there is a boarded door set in a stone surround with impost blocks and a weather course above. To the left, there is a secondary doorway that has a 20th-century glazed door. The cottage has four-pane sash windows, along with a small modern window on the ground floor to the left. There is ashlar coping on the left side and a central stack. This building is included in the listing mainly for its group value context.
Local climate
High Cottage 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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