Prospect House is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. House.
Prospect House
- WRENN ID
- turning-garret-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Prospect House, Main Street, Askham Richard
- OS grid reference
- SE 536 479
- Coordinates
- 53.92468, -1.18505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Prospect House is a house built in the early 19th century. It is constructed of pinkish-brown brick and topped with a grey slate roof. The house features a central staircase hall plan and has a low two-storey outshut to the rear left. It stands two storeys high and has three windows on the first floor. Access is via three steps leading to a central six-panel door, which is topped by a fanlight with radial glazing bars. This door is framed by a doorcase with fluted pilasters and caps under an open pediment. The outer bays have 16-pane sash windows, while there is a narrower sash window with 12-pane glazing bars above the door, all set within flush wood architraves. The ground floor windows are positioned under segmental arches, and those on the first floor are under cambered lintels. A wooden eaves band runs along the top, and there are end stacks and a contemporary fall pipe.
Local climate
Prospect House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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