The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1986. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sombre-attic-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, West End, Askrigg, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 947 910
- Coordinates
- 54.31504, -2.08198
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that has undergone later alterations. It is constructed of rubble with an artificial stone slate roof and has two storeys with two first-floor windows. Originally, it served as the low end of West End House. The central entrance features a four-panel door set beneath a deep and wide chamfered lintel. On the ground floor, there are four-pane sash windows below slab lintels, while the first floor has four-pane sash windows in double-chamfered stone surrounds, with the window to the right originally being wider. There is a stack at the right end of the building. On the right side, the first floor features a blocked two-light chamfered mullion window and a single-light window to the left. The interior includes what was once the through-passage behind the main fireplace of West End House.
Local climate
The 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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