Town Head Cottage, Former Dame School Adjoining and Area Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Cottage, former school. 1 related planning application.
Town Head Cottage, Former Dame School Adjoining and Area Wall
- WRENN ID
- graven-loggia-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Cottage, former school
- Address
- Town Head Cottage, Former Dame School Adjoining and Area Wall, CA17 4NQ
- OS grid reference
- NY 721 036
- Coordinates
- 54.42763, -2.43044
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town Head Cottage is a building that likely dates back to the 16th century, with later alterations. It includes a former Dame School at the north end, which may have been converted from earlier outbuildings in 1859, as indicated by a panel with the initials S.W. The structure is built of slobbered rubble with quoins on the school section. The cottage features a graduated stone flag roof, while the school has a graduated slate roof.
The cottage is two storeys high and has four bays. It has a low plank door with two casement windows to the left and one to the right on each floor. The school section has two bays and is set slightly forward of the cottage. It features a plank door on the right for each floor, with stone steps leading up to the first-floor door, and a casement window with the dated panel to the left. All windows have glazing bars. A large corbelled stone chimney is located at the south end of the cottage, while the school has a rendered chimney at its south end. In front of the cottage, there is a coursed, squared rubble area wall approximately 3 feet high.
Local climate
Town Head Cottage, Former Dame School Adjoining and Area Wall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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