Number 279 and Attached Screen Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Number 279 and Attached Screen Walls
- WRENN ID
- graven-loft-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Number 279 and Attached Screen Walls, High Street, Boston Spa, LS23 6AL
- OS grid reference
- SE 437 452
- Coordinates
- 53.90118, -1.3355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 279 and the attached screen walls are a house and screen walls dating from the early 19th century. They are constructed from ashlar magnesian limestone and feature a Welsh slate roof. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with two-bay screen walls on each side and a lower two-storey wing at the rear. The ground-floor walling is cemented.
The central entrance has a part-glazed door set within a wooden doorcase that features a pediment. This door is flanked by sash windows with glazing bars, which have projecting stone sills and flat arches. The facade displays a row of infilled sockets, likely remnants of a former verandah. The first-floor windows match those on the ground floor. The building has paired gutter brackets and cement-rendered end stacks.
On the left, the screen wall includes a part-glazed door to the right of a blind recess, with ashlar copings that slope down to the left to cover a low forward projection of the wall. The right screen wall now serves as the facade for a one-storey extension to the house and features windows similar to those on the main building, with ashlar copings that slope down on the right where the wall ends.
Local climate
Number 279 and Attached Screen Walls receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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