Lilac Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1969. House. 4 related planning applications.
Lilac Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-timber-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1969
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lilac Cottage, Old Main Street, Kettlewell with Starbotton, North Yorkshire, BD23 5HY
- OS grid reference
- SD 953 747
- Coordinates
- 54.16858, -2.072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lilac Cottage is a house, dated 1656. It is constructed of limestone rubble with a graduated stone slate roof. The property originally had two bays. The right-hand side features a double board door set within a deeply chamfered surround; the segmental doorhead contains recessed panels with the date "1656" and the initials "WF" carved in raised letters. The windows are recessed and chamfered, featuring mullions. Ground floor windows have two or three lights, with one mullion having been removed, and each has a hood mould. First floor windows have two or two lights. Quoins are visible on the right side of the building. An additional bay has been added to the left, but this is not considered to be of special architectural interest. The interior was not inspected during a resurvey, but it is reported to contain a broad chimney arch.
Local climate
Lilac Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 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 — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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