York House is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. House. 2 related planning applications.

York House

WRENN ID
open-chalk-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Constituency
Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1982
Type
House
Address
York House, Bluntisham Road, Colne, PE28 3LY
OS grid reference
TL 371 757
Coordinates
52.36284, 0.01239
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

York House, built in 1844, features a double pile plan with two projecting wings and a central rear kitchen window. This two-storey building is constructed of gault brick and has shallow pitched modern tile roofs that are half-hipped at the wings. Stone steps lead up to a central porch that spans the facade between the wings, which has a tented roof and a cast iron trellis adorned with a Greek anthemion motif. The porch includes a recessed, four-panelled door with sidelights, and the doorcase has panelled reveals, panelled pilasters, and a moulded frieze. Above the door, there is a segmental arched fanlight with glazing bars set in a gauged brick arch. The first floor features a symmetrical arrangement of three hung sash windows with glazing bars and margin lights in cambered gauged brick arches. Each wing has two ground floor French casement windows with glazing bars and margin lights. Additionally, there is a cast-iron trellised porch leading to a garden door in the left wing, and a garden wall with terminating brick piers topped with stone caps and ball finials. Inside, the property remains intact, showcasing original four-panelled doors and chimney pieces. A fine, free-standing open-string staircase with mahogany handrails and cast-iron balusters is present, along with some original 19th-century wallpaper in the garden lobby of the south wing.

Local climate

York House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
  • 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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