Smothits is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Smothits
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-eave-thyme
- 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
- Smothits, Main Street, West Witton, North Yorkshire, DL8 4LP
- OS grid reference
- SE 060 884
- Coordinates
- 54.29121, -1.90829
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smothits is a house dating from the late 18th century. It has a roughcast exterior and a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and features three bays on the left and one bay on the right. The left side of the house has a central part-glazed door with an overlight, set within an ashlar surround that has splayed bases. The windows on the ground floor are modern casements framed by architraves, while the first floor has smaller casement windows. To the right of the house, there are board garage doors with a modern casement window above. The property has shaped kneelers and ashlar copings, with chimney stacks at both ends and to the right side. The name "Smothits" comes from the local pronunciation of "Smorthwaite," a family that were benefactors to the village. The house is included for its group value.
Local climate
Smothits 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
- 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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