Fearnville is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. Country house. 4 related planning applications.

Fearnville

WRENN ID
young-shingle-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Leeds East MP: Richard Burgon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 August 1976
Type
Country house
Address
Fearnville, Dib Lane, LS8 3DE
OS grid reference
SE 337 360
Coordinates
53.81995, -1.48889
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fearnville is a small country house, now converted into flats, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone and ashlar, topped with slate roofs. The building is two stories high with a three by one bay entrance front facing southwest. At the rear, there is a stair wing and service range that encloses a shallow northwest-facing yard.

The entrance facade features a central porch supported by Doric columns, which hold up a finely detailed entablature that includes a triglyph frieze and a dentilled cornice, topped with a shallow pediment. The flanking windows and first-floor sashes have glazing bars and large ashlar lintels, with a recessed panel above the ground-floor windows and a sill band on the first floor. The facade also has a cornice and blocking course, with a shallow hipped roof and rendered stacks.

On the left return, there is a blind recess on the first floor, alongside a large staircase window with margin lights and 16-pane sashes, which also features a sill band on the first floor. Inside, the landing balustrade can be seen through the stair window; it is likely made of cast iron and features alternate fluted and moulded balusters, with scroll and wreath decoration, a pine-cone finial, and a moulded handrail.

Local climate

Fearnville receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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