Helmsley House the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1953. House, cottage.

Helmsley House the Cottage

WRENN ID
heavy-rood-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 January 1953
Type
House, cottage
Address
Helmsley House the Cottage, A166, Gate Helmsley
OS grid reference
SE 706 557
Coordinates
53.99259, -0.92398
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Helmsley House and The Cottage is a house and attached barn that has been converted into a cottage. It dates from the mid-18th century and features 20th-century additions. The house is constructed of brick in header bond, while the cottage is in English bond, with a Welsh slate roof on the house and a pantile roof on the cottage, along with brick stacks.

The house has a gable end facade that is three storeys high and consists of three bays, with single-storey 20th-century additions on both the left and right sides. There is a six-panel door in the extension to the left. The central bay is canted and has a flat roof, featuring 16-pane and 12-pane sash windows. The outer bays also have 12-pane sashes. There are first and second floor bands, and all windows except the one in the centre of the ground floor are topped with keyed flat brick arches. On the second floor, there is a Diocletian window flanked by uneven 9-pane sashes, all beneath keyed brick arches. The verges have barge boards, and there is a ridge stack.

The cottage, located to the right, is two storeys high and has a single fixed four-pane window on the ground floor and two sashes with glazing bars on the first floor. The entrance is at the rear. The cottage features a pantile roof, raised gable ends, and ridge stacks.

Inside the house, there is an original mid-18th century staircase and intact original panelling in the main reception room. The board door by the staircase has H-L hinges.

Local climate

Helmsley House the Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 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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