Riverside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1989. House. 2 related planning applications.
Riverside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-transept-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Riverside Cottage, Airton, North Yorkshire, BD23 4AF
- OS grid reference
- SD 903 592
- Coordinates
- 54.02898, -2.1486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Riverside Cottage is a former mill manager's house, now a residential property, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of squared rubble and features a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. Facing the stream, there are sash windows with glazing bars, all set in plain stone surrounds. The nearly central entrance consists of a 6-panel door, also in a plain stone surround, topped with a flat stone hood.
Local climate
Riverside Cottage 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 — 5 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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