The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1967. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-niche-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Fountains Road, Aldfield, HG4 3DZ
- OS grid reference
- SE 270 682
- Coordinates
- 54.10945, -1.5878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house built in 1749, constructed from coursed squared sandy gritstone and topped with a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring two bays and a single-storey bay to the right. The central entrance consists of a four-panel door with a quoined surround and a large lintel that bears an inscribed date. Above the door, shaped stone brackets support a hood made from a single slab, which has a slightly ridged upper surface. The windows on the ground and first floors are three-light with hollow chamfered mullions. The eaves are coved, and there are wooden gutter brackets and end stacks. On the left side, there is a three-light mullion window on the first floor and two two-light mullion windows in the attic. The interior has not been inspected during the resurvey, but the single-storey bay is reported to contain remains of cruck framing. There is a 20th-century garage attached to the left, which is not of special interest.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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