West House Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1987. House.
West House Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- steep-cellar-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- West House Farm Cottage, Nidd Lane, Birstwith
- OS grid reference
- SE 245 602
- Coordinates
- 54.03774, -1.62677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West House Farm Cottage is a house dated 1760, built for Simeon Moorhouse. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The cottage has two storeys and three bays, with one room depth and a rear outshut. The building has quoins and a central half-glazed four-panel door, with a lintel inscribed 'Simeon Moorehouse 1760' and jambs that include tie-stones. The flanking and first-floor windows originally had two lights with central mullions, which have been removed in favor of paired four-pane sashes with stone surrounds. On the first floor, there is a narrow round-headed window in the center. The cottage has shaped kneelers, gable coping, and corniced stacks at the center and end right. There are single-storey additions flanking the cottage that are not of special interest.
Local climate
West House Farm Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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