Birds Nest Close is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 2000. Cottage.
Birds Nest Close
- WRENN ID
- lone-foundation-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 2000
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Birds Nest Close, Melbecks, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 988 987
- Coordinates
- 54.38432, -2.01948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birds Nest Close is a lead miners cottage with an attached barn, dating from around 1700 and altered in the late 18th century. The building is constructed of coursed rubble stone with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof with raised ashlar gables. It has a single central ridge chimney stack and is two storeys high.
The main southeast facade includes a doorway on the left framed by an ashlar block surround, with a slightly smaller window above it. There is another doorway to the left of centre, which has a plank door, and above it to the left is a taking-in door with a plank stable door. Both the left and right returns of the building are blank, although the shadow of a former steep gable is still visible. The rear facade is also blank, except for a small lean-to addition on the left, which has a corrugated iron roof.
Local climate
Birds Nest Close sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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