Skell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1984. Cottage.

Skell Cottage

WRENN ID
hallowed-barrel-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Skell Cottage, 5, Borrage Green Lane, Ripon
OS grid reference
SE 308 708
Coordinates
54.13243, -1.5297
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Skell Cottage is an early 19th-century building constructed of brick with a slate roof. It features two storeys and consists of two parallel blocks. The front has two gables and includes sash windows set in moulded frames. The entrance has a panelled door with fluted jambs and a cornice supported by brackets. At the rear, there is a lower wing with a 2-centred arched window that has Gothick glazing bars. The garden front is adorned with two 2-storey bays.

Local climate

Skell Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% 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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