Pen Y Ghent Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1988. Cottage.
Pen Y Ghent Cottage
- WRENN ID
- long-bastion-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pen Y Ghent Cottage, Horton in Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 804 726
- Coordinates
- 54.14958, -2.30037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pen-y-Ghent Cottage is a former farmhouse that has been converted into one cottage from two. It dates back to the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. The building features a rubble plinth, slobbered rubble brought to course, stone dressings, and a stone slate roof. It is two storeys high and has four bays.
The entrance is located to the right of the centre and has a slate lintel with a door from around 1970. There are three ground floor windows: a former four-light chamfered mullioned window, now with only the central mullion remaining and a slate dripstone; a left-of-centre former two-light chamfered window with the mullion missing; and a right-hand mid-18th century two-light recessed flat-faced mullioned window with a 20th-century sill.
On the upper floor, there are four windows: a former three-light window, now a two-light cavetto mullioned window with one remaining mullion repositioned in the centre; a single-light 20th-century window that reuses mid-18th century jambs; a former two-light chamfered window with the mullion missing; and a two-light mid-18th century flat-faced mullioned window, along with 1980s casements.
The right-hand gable end has a stack, as does the left-hand former gable end stack, which is now at the junction with a projecting former barn. The rear of the building contains a blocked two-light chamfered mullioned window. This cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Pen Y Ghent Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
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