Primrose House the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. Farmhouse, house, flat.

Primrose House the Cottage

WRENN ID
rusted-eave-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1958
Type
Farmhouse, house, flat
Address
Primrose House the Cottage, 1, School Hill/ Victoria Street, Settle
OS grid reference
SD 820 634
Coordinates
54.06708, -2.27502
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Primrose House and No. 1 (The Cottage) is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house and flat, dated 1664 and refronted in the 18th century. It features stucco stone dressings and a stone slate roof, with three storeys and three bays. The central entrance, originally from the 17th century, was later heightened and has a moulded surround with a decorated hood displaying the date and initials IWE. All windows date from the 18th century, although some reuse 17th-century chamfered surrounds, and they all contain sash windows with glazing bars. The left-hand window on the ground and first floor has a moulded surround, while the right-hand ground floor window is a two-light mullioned window. The remaining windows are single-light. There is a left-hand gable end ridge stack.

Inside, the left room features late 18th-century panelling with fluted Doric pilasters around the fireplace. There is a semi-circular backed wall cupboard in a similar style, adorned with a Roman Doric frieze of triglyphs, guttae, and ram's skulls, along with a five-panel door. The plaster ceiling includes four rosettes, each within a circle, and two strips of bayleaf decoration. The right room has an inglenook fireplace with a segmental head made of 14 voussoirs and bead moulding, along with two stop-chamfered beams. The third floor has been converted into a separate flat known as No. 1 School Hill.

Local climate

Primrose House 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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