Abbey Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Abbey Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-zinc-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Abbey Cottage, Spennithorne, DL8 5PS
- OS grid reference
- SE 139 886
- Coordinates
- 54.29312, -1.78693
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Cottage is part of a medieval complex that forms Spennithorne Old Hall and has been converted into a house. It dates back to the 14th century and has undergone extensive remodelling. The building is constructed of rubble and features an artificial slate roof. It is two storeys high and consists of two offset, parallel ranges, with a 20th-century single-storey extension on the left. The south elevation has three 20th-century first-floor windows on one range and two on the other, along with a ruined section to the right. There are fragments of old masonry and blocked windows throughout the structure.
At the rear of the side elevations, there are medieval external doorways leading to a screens passage; one doorway is glazed while the other is blocked. These doorways feature pointed double-chamfered arches with hollow mouldings on the chamfers. Inside, there are four original doorways from the screens passage, three of which have shouldered doorheads and chamfered openings leading to the pantry, kitchen, and buttery, while the fourth doorway leads to the staircase. This building was historically associated with the hall of the Fitz Randalls of Spennithorne.
Local climate
Abbey Cottage receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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