Fern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1987. A C18 Cottage.

Fern Cottage

WRENN ID
tenth-bastion-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Fern Cottage, Chapel Lane, Halton East
OS grid reference
SE 042 539
Coordinates
53.98174, -1.93716
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fern Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1700, with alterations made in the late 18th century, early 19th century, and 20th century. It is built of squared rubble with stone dressings and has a stone slate roof. The cottage has two storeys and consists of one bay. The left-hand entrance features a chamfered surround and a decorated lintel, with a door added around 1960.

On the ground floor, there is a former four-light chamfered mullioned window that has been reduced to two lights, retaining only the king mullion and a drip moulding. The upper floor originally had a three-light chamfered mullioned window, which is now also two lights with only the left-hand mullion remaining. The windows have leaded casements and fixed lights. The right-hand gable end has a shaped kneeler and coping, and there is a ridge stack on the right-hand gable end. The interior is not accessible.

Local climate

Fern Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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