Moss Farm and Moss Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Farmhouse, dwelling.
Moss Farm and Moss Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tilted-steel-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse, dwelling
- Address
- Moss Farm and Moss Cottage, Hawes Road, Sedbergh, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 670 918
- Coordinates
- 54.32145, -2.50866
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moss Farm and Moss Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into two dwellings. It likely dates from the early 18th century and underwent alterations in the 19th century, with further renovations around 1980. The building is constructed from mixed random rubble, featuring quoins, with the west gable being roughcast. It has a stone slate roof, while the rear wing is covered with slate.
The structure is L-shaped, consisting of a single-depth, two-unit main range oriented east-west, with a rear wing attached to the second unit. The exterior is two storeys high and has five windows. A recent lean-to porch is positioned slightly to the right of the center, with doorways on both sides. To the left of the porch, there are two windows with old sandstone lintels, and to the right, two windows with bluestone lintels. All these windows are now 4-pane sashes, replacing the original casements. The first floor features five similar windows with renewed lintels. There is a gable chimney on the left and a square chimney on wooden corbels at the right gable. The right-hand gable wall has a small window towards the rear at ground level. The rear wing, which is slightly set back, includes a doorway at the junction with the main range, chamfered flush mullion windows with three and two lights at ground level, a two-light casement on the first floor, a gable chimney, and two 20th-century windows on each floor of the gable wall.
Inside the right-hand portion, now known as Moss Farm, there is a notable mid-18th century stone fireplace with a moulded surround and a corbelled lintel featuring a fan-pattern false keystone. To the left of the fireplace is an altered bread oven, and to the right is a square spice cupboard with a moulded surround and a fielded panel door on butterfly hinges. On the first floor, the inner side of the gable chimney has wooden corbels.
Local climate
Moss Farm and Moss Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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