York House is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. House. 1 related planning application.
York House
- WRENN ID
- tall-foundation-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- York House, 9, Brownston Street, Modbury, PL21 0RG
- OS grid reference
- SX 658 516
- Coordinates
- 50.34979, -3.88668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
York House is a house in a row, built in the mid-19th century. It features a smooth rendered front with a rubble return and a slate roof. The building stands three storeys tall and has two wide-spaced windows with 4-pane sash designs. The ground floor on the right includes a square bay with a low-pitched hipped lead roof, cornice, and consoles, which supports a tripartite sash window with narrow single sash returns and a horizontal glazing bar. To the left, off centre, there are four steps leading up to a 6-paned flush door with a 2-pane overlight and a cantilevered canopy. A brick stack is located on the right side of the house.
Local climate
York House receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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
- 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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