Ye Old Golden Lion Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1988. A C18 House.
Ye Old Golden Lion Cottage
- WRENN ID
- final-cornice-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ye Old Golden Lion Cottage, Front Street, Topcliffe
- OS grid reference
- SE 400 760
- Coordinates
- 54.17883, -1.38739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ye Old Golden Lion Cottage is a house that was formerly a public house, dating from the early 18th century with later alterations. The building is rendered and has a 20th-century pantile roof. It is two stories high and has three bays, following a lobby entrance plan. There is a six-panel 20th-century door to the left of the right-hand bay, which features 12-pane side-sliding sash windows. The two left-hand bays have canted bays on the ground floor, with three-light side-sliding sashes that have glazing bars on the front and fixed small-pane windows on the sides. On the first floor, there are three-light 20th-century casements. The cottage has an eaves band and rendered coping on the left gable. There is an end stack on the left and one on the ridge.
Local climate
Ye Old Golden Lion Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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