Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1988. House.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-foundation-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook Cottage, Main Street, Bentham
- OS grid reference
- SD 649 693
- Coordinates
- 54.11904, -2.53776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage is a house built around 1830, with alterations from the 1890s. It features watershot masonry, stone dressings, and a stone slate roof. The building has a central staircase plan and is two storeys high with a double front. The central entrance has a plain surround with a moulded hood and a 20th-century door. There are two windows on each storey, which are 16-pane sashes. The eaves are adorned with shaped modillions, and there are ridge stacks on the left and right that are now at the junction with the 1890s wings.
Local climate
Brook Cottage 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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