Ellis Cottage Ellis House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. A C17 House. 6 related planning applications.
Ellis Cottage Ellis House
- WRENN ID
- fossil-chalk-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ellis Cottage Ellis House, Airton, North Yorkshire, BD23 4AE
- OS grid reference
- SD 903 592
- Coordinates
- 54.02909, -2.14947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ellis Cottage and Ellis House is a house, now divided into two homes, dating from 1696. It is built of slobbered rubble with a stone slate roof. The structure features a long range with a short cross wing to the left. The cross wing has two small chamfered lights at ground level and a 19th-century square fixed light above, along with a large dovecote in the gable. There is a modern doorway and door on the return side.
The main range has two bays that are set back, featuring a slightly chamfered doorway, which may be recent or completely replaced, and a similar three-light window. Above these are sash windows with glazing bars. Two additional bays step forward and include another chamfered doorway, with a slightly pointed lintel that has been raised, inscribed with the initials E 16 WA 96. Above this doorway is a small chamfered light, and beside it is a sash window with glazing bars, similar to two on the first floor. There is also a large fixed window on the right side of the ground floor. The right return wall features a massive external chimney stack.
Inside Ellis Cottage, opposite the inscribed doorway to Ellis House, there is a very large elliptical arched fireplace with a shield on the lintel, carved with the same initials and the date 1702.
Local climate
Ellis Cottage Ellis House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 2008
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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