Anvil House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. A Late C18 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Anvil House
- WRENN ID
- lost-fireplace-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Anvil House, Main Street, Long Preston, North Yorkshire, BD23 4ND
- OS grid reference
- SD 834 581
- Coordinates
- 54.01874, -2.25348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Anvil House is a former smithy that has been converted into a cottage, dated 1797 with 20th-century alterations. The building features a rendered exterior with painted stone dressings and a tiled roof. It has a central staircase plan and stands two storeys tall with a double front. The central entrance has a plain surround and a mid-20th-century gabled hood, leading to a four-panel door with the upper two panels glazed. Each storey has two windows, all of which are two-light flat faced mullioned windows with mid-20th-century six-pane casements. Above the entrance is a datestone inscribed with "A I M". The building was reroofed around 1980 and has gable end ridge stacks.
Local climate
Anvil House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 — 5 transactions since 1997
- 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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