The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1969. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-doorway-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1969
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Village Street, Newbiggin, North Yorkshire, DL8 3TD
- OS grid reference
- SE 000 857
- Coordinates
- 54.26745, -2.00106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dated 1717, constructed from rubble with stone slate roofs. It has a U-shaped plan featuring two continuous rear service wings and stands two storeys high. The south elevation has two first-floor windows. On the ground floor, there is a 2-light window set in a double-chamfered surround with a recessed flat-faced mullion, alongside two 3-light double-chamfered mullion windows. The first floor features 3-light double-chamfered mullion windows. To the right, there is a shaped kneeler and moulded ashlar coping, as well as stepped end stacks made of ashlar.
At the rear, the ground floor includes, from the left, two 2-light double-chamfered mullion windows, a 4-pane fixed-light window, and a 4-panel door set in an ashlar quoined chamfered surround, which has the inscription "EW 1717" on the lintel and a cornice above. The first floor has a mix of 3-light and 2-light double-chamfered mullion windows, arranged in paired gables that feature shaped kneelers and moulded coping.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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