Numbers 1-3 College Fold is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. Former academy, cottage. 1 related planning application.
Numbers 1-3 College Fold
- WRENN ID
- peeling-ledge-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1958
- Type
- Former academy, cottage
- Address
- Numbers 1-3 College Fold, Main Street, Rathmell, BD24 0LH
- OS grid reference
- SD 804 600
- Coordinates
- 54.03591, -2.30066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 1-3 College Fold are three cottages, originally Rathmell Academy, dating from 1686, with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. They were built for Richard Frankland (c1630-98). The building is constructed of roughly dressed rubble stone, with stone dressings, and has a slate roof. It was originally designed with a lobby entry plan. The cottages are two storeys high and were originally four bays wide. Each entrance has a plain surround and a plank door; the left-hand entrance is within a 20th-century porch. The windows are predominantly three-light stepped windows with chamfered mullions, casements, and fixed lights. The central ground floor window was originally four-light with chamfered mullions, and is now a two-light window. The right-hand bay has 20th-century windows on each floor, with sash windows and glazing bars. The right-hand gable end has ridge stacks. At the rear of the building, a raised lintel is inscribed "F 1686" (Richard & Elizabeth Frankland), and there is a single rear window with a chamfered surround and a basket arch above. Frankland founded the academy in 1670 as the first non-conformist college.
Local climate
Numbers 1-3 College Fold sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 — 3 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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