Town End and Town End Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1988. A C18 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Town End and Town End Cottages
- WRENN ID
- waiting-soffit-hemlock
- 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
- Town End and Town End Cottages, Clapham Road, Austwick, North Yorkshire, EH10 7AQ
- OS grid reference
- SD 764 682
- Coordinates
- 54.10972, -2.36179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town End and Town End Cottages are two former cottages that date back to 1712, with a likely 19th-century left-hand bay and an early 20th-century extension to the right of Town End Cottage. The exterior features pebble dash with stone dressings and a stone slate roof. The buildings are two storeys high and were originally four bays.
The former central entrance has a chamfered surround and a lintel inscribed with the initials A/W/H, now featuring a 20th-century door. To the left of the entrance, there is a deepened ground floor window that was likely originally a three-light window with missing mullions, now fitted with 20th-century casements. To the right of the entrance is a tall single-light window, which probably served as a fire-window. Further right is a 20th-century entrance and window, which replaced a former three-light chamfered mullioned window that is now part of Town End Cottage.
The left-hand bay, which has a 1912 buttress, features one window per storey with 20th-century casements. The remaining upper floor windows include a former three-light chamfered mullioned window with missing mullions, now with casements, and two 20th-century windows alongside a former two-light chamfered mullioned window that also has a missing mullion, now fitted with casements. A ridge stack is located to the right of centre.
To the right of Town End Cottage is the early 20th-century extension, which is two storeys tall and slightly taller than the original 17th-century building, consisting of two bays. The cottages were originally stables for Harden House.
Local climate
Town End and Town End Cottages 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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