Western House and the Surgery is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1986. Doctor's house. 1 related planning application.
Western House and the Surgery
- WRENN ID
- old-portal-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1986
- Type
- Doctor's house
- Address
- Western House and the Surgery, Hawthorne Terrace, New Earswick, YO32 4AQ
- OS grid reference
- SE 608 552
- Coordinates
- 53.99003, -1.07338
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Western House and the Surgery is a doctor's house built between 1909 and 1914, with an extension added in 1986. It was designed by Parker and Unwin for the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust. The building features pebbledashed brick and a French tile roof, and is L-shaped in plan. The house is two storeys high and has three bays. On the left side, there is a round-arched porch with tile trim that contains a round-arched door. To the left of the porch, there is a plate-glass casement window. The right wing of the house projects forward and includes a pair of 2-light casement windows. On the first floor, there are two 2-light casements to the left and another pair of 2-light casements to the right. The roof has sprocketed eaves and is half-hipped, with ridge stacks. The surgery is a single storey and features a pair of 2-light fixed windows on the north facade and a 2-light casement window on the gable end.
Local climate
Western House and the Surgery receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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