Drovers House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. Farmhouse.
Drovers House
- WRENN ID
- stranded-wicket-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Drovers House, High Lane, Grinton, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 995 979
- Coordinates
- 54.37718, -2.00918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Drovers House is a farmhouse dated 1682, constructed of whitewashed coursed watershot sandstone rubble with a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and features a central through-passage leading to stairs in a rear outshut. On the first floor, there are two windows, and the structure has a plinth and crude quoins. It has 4-pane sash windows throughout.
On the ground floor, there is a blocked fire window on the left, which has a semi-circular arch in the soffit of the lintel. The central doorway is chamfered and quoined, with a panel on the lintel inscribed 'M RA 1682' and a 20th-century door. A continuous drip mould runs above the doorway. On the first floor, there is a blocked opening, similar to the fire window, above the door, and the remains of a mullioned window can be seen on the right. The building features shaped kneelers and ashlar copings, with a stack located to the left. The byres to the right are not of special interest.
Local climate
Drovers House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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