The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. House. 8 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-floor-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Duke Street, Settle, BD24 9DJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 819 634
- Coordinates
- 54.06701, -2.2774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house built around 1830, designed as one of a pair alongside Devonshire House. It features slobbered rubble with stone dressings and a slate roof. The building is two storeys tall and has a double front. The entrance is framed by a plain surround and a moulded hood, leading to a six-panel door. All windows are surrounded by plain surrounds, have projecting sills, and are fitted with sash windows. The corbels beneath the eaves cornice are similar in design to those used by Rickman at the Church of the Holy Ascension, built in 1838. There is a ridge stack on the left side of the roof.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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