Bell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1987. Former outbuilding.
Bell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eastward-casement-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1987
- Type
- Former outbuilding
- Address
- Bell Cottage, Osgoodby Hall, Osgoodby, Thirkleby High and Low with Osgodby, YO7 2AW
- OS grid reference
- SE 492 809
- Coordinates
- 54.22162, -1.24595
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bell Cottage is a former outbuilding dating from around 1700 that has been altered. It is constructed from coursed, squared stone with herringbone tooling and features a corrugated iron roof. The building is two storeys high and has four bays.
On the north front, there are quoins, with a stable door inserted in the center. To the right, there is a four-panel door beneath a keyed, herringbone-tooled lintel, and to the left, a window has been inserted at the eaves. There is another window near the center that has been blocked. The front also has an eaves band, cyma-moulded kneelers, and ashlar coping.
At the rear, there is an added brick outshut that is not of special interest, along with an inserted window. The left gable features a chamfered plinth, a boarded door on the right, and a boarded hatch in the gable, both with keyed lintels. The right gable shows traces of former openings that are now blocked, and there is an inserted window on the left of a full-height projection, approximately 0.75 metres wide and chamfered at the top, which was the base of a bellcote that has since been removed.
Inside, the building has braced king-post roof trusses and large scantling tie-beams, with the left tie-beam showing mortices in the soffit for a former partition.
Local climate
Bell Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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