Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Keeper's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- standing-joist-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Keeper's Cottage, Town Street, Scampston, YO17 8NG
- OS grid reference
- SE 862 754
- Coordinates
- 54.16773, -0.68092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keeper's Cottage is a house dating from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of pinkish brick in English garden wall bond and features a slate roof. The building has a central-entry plan and is two stories high with a two-window front. The entrance consists of a four-panel door topped by a cross-glazed overlight. On the ground floor, there are 16-pane sash windows, while the first floor has unequal 12-pane sash windows. All openings have flat arches, and the windows are adorned with painted stone sills. A dentilled brick eaves course runs along the top, and there are end stacks with dentilled cornices. On the left side, there is a pointed four-pane sash window on the ground floor. The cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Keeper's Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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