Tems Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. Cottage.
Tems Cottage
- WRENN ID
- night-keystone-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tems Cottage, Tems Street, Giggleswick
- OS grid reference
- SD 810 637
- Coordinates
- 54.06976, -2.29039
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tems Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century, with alterations from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is constructed of limewashed rubble with painted stone dressings and has a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The late 18th-century entrance is located to the left of the centre and features plain jambs on square bases and projecting impost blocks, with a door added around 1960.
The left-hand ground floor windows are early 19th-century with a plain surround, projecting sill, and sash windows. The right-hand ground floor window is a three-light flat faced mullioned window. The central ground floor windows from the late 19th century are sashes without glazing bars, flanked by fixed lights.
On the upper floor, there are three windows: the left-hand window is a three-light double chamfered mullioned window, the central window is a three-light flat faced mullioned window, and the right-hand window is a stepped three-light mullioned window, with the central light featuring a round head. The stepped hoodmould above is broken at the eaves and the windows have casements. The cottage has gable end ridge stacks. The interior of the cottage is not available for inspection.
Local climate
Tems 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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