Fern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.

Fern Cottage

WRENN ID
inner-chalk-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Type
House, shop
Address
Fern Cottage, Market Place, Settle, BD24 9EJ
OS grid reference
SD 820 637
Coordinates
54.06894, -2.27625
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fern Cottage is a house and shop dating from the 17th century, with a refronting from the 19th century and some alterations made in the 20th century. It features watershot masonry, stone dressings, and a stone slate roof. The building stands three storeys high and has three bays. The entrance, located to the right of the centre, has a plain surround and a seven-panel door, which was glazed in 1986. The left-hand window on the ground floor is a two-light flat-faced mullioned window with fixed lights added in 1986. The other windows have plain surrounds and projecting sills, with a fixed light on the ground floor, sash windows on the first floor, and 20th-century casements on the second floor. Modillions are present at the eaves. A right-hand ridge stack is located at the former left-hand gable, marked by projecting quoins. At the rear, there is a 17th-century projecting wing that is shared with Eiliam.

Local climate

Fern 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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