Yarnbury Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1989. House. 1 related planning application.
Yarnbury Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lone-balcony-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Yarnbury Cottage, Old Moor Lane, Grassington, North Yorkshire, BD23 5EQ
- OS grid reference
- SE 014 659
- Coordinates
- 54.08913, -1.97925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yarnbury Cottage is a house that possibly dates from the late 18th century, with an early 19th-century conversion and a 20th-century addition. It is constructed of coursed gritstone rubble and has a grey slate roof. The building is two storeys high and features two bays, with quoins on the right side.
A central 20th-century single-storey porch has small-pane windows, while the flanking and first-floor windows have slightly projecting plain stone surrounds and 20th-century small-pane frames. The cottage includes stone gutter brackets, a kneeler, and gable coping on the right side, as well as end stacks. The interior was not inspected during the resurvey.
Yarnbury Cottage is included for its group value and may have originally been a farmhouse. It likely became an agent's house around 1818 when the Duke of Devonshire appointed John Taylor as chief agent and Captain Barratt as the local agent for the lead mines. This period coincided with alterations at Yarnbury House, suggesting that the agent may have stopped living on the premises at that time.
Local climate
Yarnbury Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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