Beech Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1989. A Victorian Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Beech Hill Cottage

WRENN ID
ruined-stronghold-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1989
Type
Cottage
Period
Victorian
Address
Beech Hill Cottage, Dent, Westmorland and Furness, LA10 5QN
OS grid reference
SD 705 870
Coordinates
54.27812, -2.45338
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Beech Hill Cottage is a mid-19th century pair of cottages that have been integrated into one. The building is constructed of coursed rubble, with the front painted white and the left gable wall rendered. It features a graduated stone slate roof and has a double-depth plan. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows. On the ground floor, there is a square-headed doorway offset to the right, which has a part-glazed door. This doorway is flanked by square windows, with the left window having formerly been a doorway, and there is a rectangular window to the left. The first floor has square windows on both the left and right sides, all of which now have 20th-century four-pane top-hung casements that imitate sash windows. The cottage has gable chimneys, and the left gable wall features a 20th-century window. The interior has not been inspected. Beech Hill Cottage, along with Hodgson's Cottage and Smithy, which is adjacent to the right, forms an important group facing the Church of St Andrew.

Local climate

Beech Hill Cottage 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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