Bank House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Bank House
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-rafter-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bank House, Main Street, Dent, Westmorland and Furness, LA10 5QL
- OS grid reference
- SD 705 870
- Coordinates
- 54.27779, -2.45415
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bank House is a house that was formerly used as a bank and is now a private dwelling. It likely dates from the mid-19th century and has been altered. The building is constructed of watershot coursed sandstone rubble with a slate roof and features a double-depth single-fronted plan. It stands three storeys high over a basement and has two windows on the front facade.
On the ground floor, there is a square-headed doorway to the left, which is accessed by three steps and protected by iron railings on the right. To the right of the doorway, there is a 4-pane sash window and a large rectangular multi-pane fixed window, which has raked wooden shutters beneath the sill to protect a basement opening. The first floor contains two 4-pane sash windows, while the top floor has two square 2-light casement windows. The building has a ridge chimney and a gable chimney on the right side. The right-hand gable wall and the rear wall have windows on all three floors.
The interior has not been inspected. Bank House forms part of a significant group of buildings that includes Ivy Cottage to the left, the George and Dragon and Edmonson's opposite, and the Church of St Andrew to the rear, contributing to the character of the street in Dent Town.
Local climate
Bank House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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
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