Temple House and Front Wall and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1966. A C18 House.
Temple House and Front Wall and Railings
- WRENN ID
- final-brick-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Temple House and Front Wall and Railings, Kilburn High and Low, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 517 796
- Coordinates
- 54.21023, -1.20793
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Temple House, along with its front wall and railings, is a mid-18th century house that has had some 20th-century additions. The house is constructed of mottled pink brick in English bond at the front and English garden wall bond on the sides, topped with a blue slate roof. It stands two storeys high and has three bays, with a rear wing that was further extended around 1980. The facade is symmetrical and features an ashlar sill band at the ground floor, a first-floor band, and a deep cornice beneath a high stone-coped parapet.
The central entrance consists of an 18th-century panelled door set within a stone architrave that has a console cornice above it. This door is flanked by a sash window with glazing bars, which has an exposed sash box and a flat brick arch above. On either side of the entrance, there are Venetian-style windows under brick arches, each featuring a central round-arched sash with glazing bars, intersecting in the head, and flanked by narrow four-pane side-lights. The gables have ashlar coping and brick stacks.
On the right side of the house, there is a wing that is set back, with the left part made of herringbone-tooled stone. This wing has a conservatory added around 1980, which is not of special interest, and it masks a door under a deep lintel with a sash window to the right. Further right, there is a 16-pane sash window, and on the first floor, there is a round-arched sash to the left of two sashes with glazing bars, all of which have exposed sash boxes. There is also a 1980 brick addition at the right end.
Inside, the house features two-panel doors, and in the front right room, there is an iron grate set in an Adam-style wooden fireplace. In front of the house, a low rendered wall supports cast-iron railings that have square-section bars, block finials on the dog-bars, gadrooned urn-style finials on the inner standards and gate, with a gate designed in the same style. The wall returns to the house and ramps up, topped with ashlar coping.
Local climate
Temple House and Front Wall and Railings receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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