Grassgill House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. House. 4 related planning applications.
Grassgill House
- WRENN ID
- young-passage-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Grassgill House, Grassgill Lane, West Witton, North Yorkshire, DL8 4LY
- OS grid reference
- SE 062 883
- Coordinates
- 54.2908, -1.90554
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grassgill House is a house dated 1765, constructed of roughcast rubble with an artificial slate roof. It has two storeys and two bays. The central entrance features a part-glazed door set within an ashlar architrave, which is adorned with a pulvinated frieze inscribed with 'H W E' and a cornice supported by modillions. Above the door, there is a decorative plaque that also bears the date 1765. The house has 4-pane sash windows, each framed in ashlar architraves. The structure is completed with shaped kneelers, ashlar copings, and end stacks.
Local climate
Grassgill House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- 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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