New Bridge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1987. House. 1 related planning application.

New Bridge Cottage

WRENN ID
tenth-stair-twilight
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 March 1987
Type
House
Address
New Bridge Cottage, Darley Road, Birstwith, HG3 2PN
OS grid reference
SE 235 602
Coordinates
54.03732, -1.64178
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

New Bridge Cottage is a house dated 1688, with alterations from the 18th and 20th centuries. It is built from coursed squared gritstone and topped with a blue slate roof. The cottage has two storeys and three bays, featuring an end-lobby-entry plan with a lower single-storey bay on the left side. The building is accented with quoins and has a four-panel door in the first bay, surrounded by a chamfered quoined surround and a deep moulded lintel inscribed with '1688 B B . W M'.

The windows throughout are recessed-chamfered mullion types, with five, two, and five lights on the ground floor and three, two, and four lights on the first floor. The first-floor windows are nearly twice the height of those on the ground floor, and there is a continuous hoodmould over the ground-floor windows. The cottage features banded end stacks, and the left bay has a large 20th-century window with a four-pane casement above it.

Inside, the main ground-floor room includes an open fireplace with a bressumer beam and a large ceiling beam with fine moulding on the chamfers.

Local climate

New Bridge 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 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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