Kings Head Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1986. A Georgian House.
Kings Head Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-brick-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1986
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Kings Head Cottage, Market Place, Masham, HG4 4EF
- OS grid reference
- SE 225 806
- Coordinates
- 54.22132, -1.65577
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kings Head Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 18th century. It is constructed of coursed rubblestone with ashlar dressings and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has two bays and stands two storeys high. There is a door located on the left side of the carriageway, and to the right, there is a basket-arched carriageway with a keystone. On the left side, there is a sash window in the door opening, and the left bay also has a sash window. On the first floor, there are two sash windows with glazing bars, all of which have plain surrounds. The cottage is capped by a ridge stack.
Local climate
Kings Head Cottage receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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