Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- woven-groin-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Keepers Cottage, Settle, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 823 620
- Coordinates
- 54.0541, -2.27125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keepers Cottage is a 17th-century cottage built from slobbered rubble with stone dressings and a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and five bays. The entrance, located to the left of the center, features a chamfered surround and a broad hood made of a stone slate slab supported by corbels on either side of the lintel; it has a 20th-century door. To the left of the entrance is a former four-light chamfered window, which has been reduced to two lights as only the central mullion remains; this window contains a 19th-century sashed window without glazing bars and a fixed light. The remaining windows include 19th and 20th-century casements or fixed lights. There are two chamfered windows on the ground floor to the right, while the upper floor has four chamfered windows with configurations of one, three, one, and two lights, respectively. The right-hand bay features a blocked ground floor entrance and a blocked upper floor window. The cottage has gable end and central ridge stacks. At the rear, there is a two-bay projection under a catslide roof of slate, which includes a former two-light chamfered window where the mullion is now missing, and a three-light chamfered window. The right-hand return of the projecting bay has an external stack supported on two rough stone corbels.
Local climate
Keepers 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 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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