White Hart House and Gable Cottage and Attached Mounting Steps is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Inn, private houses. 2 related planning applications.
White Hart House and Gable Cottage and Attached Mounting Steps
- WRENN ID
- ruined-tallow-heron
- 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
- Inn, private houses
- Address
- White Hart House and Gable Cottage and Attached Mounting Steps, Main Street, Dent, Westmorland and Furness, LA10 5QL
- OS grid reference
- SD 704 870
- Coordinates
- 54.27784, -2.4546
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Hart House and Gable Cottage are two former inn buildings, now used as private houses, likely dating from the early 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century and later. The buildings are constructed of whitewashed rubble with a stone slate roof. They have a single-depth plan, composed of two unequal units—Gable Cottage on the left and White Hart House on the right—arranged on an east-west axis, facing south and backing onto a churchyard.
The buildings are three storeys high and have one and two windows respectively. The ground floor features two square-headed doorways, one offset to the left and the other to the right, which has a chamfered stone surround. There is a small four-pane sash window to the left of the ground floor, and two sash windows without glazing bars to the right. At the first floor, Gable Cottage has a central sash window similar to those on the ground floor, while White Hart House has two of these sashes. The second floor of Gable Cottage has a square six-pane sash, and White Hart House has three top-hung casement windows. A square chimney is located at the left gable of Gable Cottage, slightly extruded on corbels; a shared chimney rises from the ridge to the right. Attached mounting steps are situated at the front right-hand corner of White Hart House. The rear of the buildings has various small square and rectangular windows on three levels.
The interior has not been inspected. The buildings adjoin Sedgwick Cottage to the right and form part of an important group of buildings backing onto the churchyard, facing the Sun Inn and other buildings opposite.
Local climate
White Hart House and Gable Cottage and Attached Mounting Steps 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- 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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