Gildersbank Cottage and Spindle Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1988. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Gildersbank Cottage and Spindle Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-ledge-amber
- 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
- Gildersbank Cottage and Spindle Tree Cottage, Church Avenue, Clapham Cum Newby, North Yorkshire, LA2 8EG
- OS grid reference
- SD 745 692
- Coordinates
- 54.11839, -2.39131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gildersbank Cottage and Spindle Tree Cottage are two cottages that are believed to have been the former Spindle Tree Inn. They date from the late 18th century and have some alterations from the 19th century. The buildings are rendered with stone dressings and have a stone slate roof.
Gildersbank Cottage features a central staircase plan and is two storeys high with three bays. The central entrance has a moulded surround and cornice, leading to a six-panel door with the upper two panels glazed. There are two ground floor windows and three upper floor windows, all with plain surrounds and sashes that include glazing bars. The left side has chamfered quoins, and there are ridge stacks on both the left and right sides.
Spindle Tree Cottage is also two storeys and has a double front. Its central entrance has a plain surround and a six-panel door with the upper two panels glazed. There are two windows on each storey, with the ground floor windows being slightly taller. All windows have plain surrounds and sashes. The right side features chamfered quoins and a ridge stack.
Local climate
Gildersbank Cottage and Spindle Tree 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 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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