Blacksmith's Cottage and attached outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1988. Cottage, outbuilding.
Blacksmith's Cottage and attached outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- hollow-glass-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1988
- Type
- Cottage, outbuilding
- Address
- Blacksmith's Cottage and attached outbuilding, Low Kilburn, Kilburn High and Low
- OS grid reference
- SE 512 796
- Coordinates
- 54.20993, -1.21525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blacksmith's Cottage and the attached outbuilding are two houses from the early 19th century, constructed in two phases. They are built of coursed squared stone, with an interlocking tile roof on the taller house and pantiles on the lower house. The taller house is two storeys high and has two bays, while the lower house, now an outbuilding, is also two storeys and has two bays.
The taller house, known as Blacksmith's Cottage, features a blocked door on the left and a board door to the right of the center, both with timber lintels. Each bay has a two-light eight-pane side-sliding sash window on both floors, with timber lintels, except for the ground floor right window which lacks a lintel. There are brick stacks located at the center of the ridge and at the right end. The lower house, now an outbuilding, has a board door flanked by two-light windows on each floor, although its gable stack has been removed.
At the rear, the taller house is made of snecked stone and has a narrow central board door with an outshut to the left. The lower house is constructed of large herringbone-tooled stones.
Inside the right room of the taller house, there is a massive stone fireplace with an iron range, a large chamfered cross-beam, and a board door leading into a rear outshut pantry. The lower house contains a stone fireplace with remnants of a grate on the left wall. The buildings are included for their group value.
Local climate
Blacksmith's Cottage and attached outbuilding receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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