The Fruit House is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1966. Fruit house.
The Fruit House
- WRENN ID
- lunar-parapet-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Goole and Pocklington MP: David Davis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1966
- Type
- Fruit house
- Address
- The Fruit House, Howden
- OS grid reference
- SE 748 280
- Coordinates
- 53.74388, -0.86626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fruit House is a building associated with Bishop's Manor House, possibly serving as a gatehouse. It dates back to the medieval period but was rebuilt in 1938 and restored in 1986. The structure is made of ashlar, rubble, and brick, and is a single-storey, single-bay building. It features a pointed single-span arch over a river and has a board door with ogee-arched panels beneath a hollow-moulded basket arch.
On the left side, there is a plaque that reads: "18th June 1938 Happy hearts and happy faces Happy play in grassy places That was how, in ancient ages Children grew to kings and sages R L Stevenson." On the right side, another plaque states, "On 9th Oct 1929 water used for the church fire was pumped from this moat near by here being the only supply available." The building has a string course and a coped gable that displays the letters APF (Ashes Playing Field) in relief, with a bellcote above, flanked by round embattled turrets. It is uncertain whether any of the features above the string course are original.
Local climate
The Fruit House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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