Honeysuckle Cottage and Path Head is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Honeysuckle Cottage and Path Head

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Honeysuckle Cottage and Path Head, Main Street, Sessay, YO7 3BE
OS grid reference
SE 454 756
Coordinates
54.17486, -1.30564
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Honeysuckle Cottage and Path Head is a pair of cottages built around 1850 by William Butterfield for Lord Downe, with alterations made around 1980. They are constructed of pinkish brick in English garden wall bond and feature a plain purplish tiled roof. The cottages are single-storey with an attic and consist of two bays, with a rear outshut for Path Head and a cross-wing on the right side, aligned at the front with Honeysuckle Cottage.

The cross-wing has a half-hipped gable and includes a 20th-century bow window on the ground floor, along with another 20th-century window above that breaks into the timber framing. The two left bays remain unaltered, featuring a 4-panel door with a wooden frame and a segmental header-brick relieving arch to the right. Above the door is a small 2-light, small-pane window set under the eaves, and to its left are two 3-light, small-pane windows, with the outer lights being sashes. There is also a similar dormer window under a hipped roof at the center.

The roof is half-hipped on the left and hipped on the right, with a tabled, offset, cross-ridge stack between the left bays and another stack at the rear of the cross-wing. At the rear, the cross-wing features a half-hipped gable with a 20th-century window and additional 20th-century alterations that are not of special interest. The outshut on the right has a less steeply-pitched catslide roof, with a boarded door flanked by 3-light windows similar to the front, and an inserted window to the left.

The left return has a gabled blind projection with timber framing in the gable and paired 8-pane sashes. The right return features a gabled porch with a small 4-pane window, a door on the rear side, and a 20th-century interlocking tile roof, along with a small 4-pane window at the eaves on the right.

Local climate

Honeysuckle Cottage and Path Head 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 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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