Library House and Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1984. A C18 Cottage. 7 related planning applications.

Library House and Cottage

WRENN ID
veiled-portal-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 December 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Library House and Cottage, High Street, Boroughbridge, YO51 9AW
OS grid reference
SE 396 666
Coordinates
54.09454, -1.3951
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Library House and Cottage is a pair of cottages built in the 18th century. They are constructed from pinkish-brown local brick and feature a pantile roof. The buildings are two storeys high and have a total of three windows on the first floor. On the ground floor, there is a new central bow window that replaces a 20th-century shop window. The cottages also have two six-panel doors set in architraves. Additionally, there is a 16-pane sash window in flush wood architraves, complete with gauged flat brick arches and cills.

Local climate

Library House and Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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