Summer Tree House and Attached Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1969. House.
Summer Tree House and Attached Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- leaning-beam-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1969
- Type
- House
- Address
- Summer Tree House and Attached Outbuilding, A684, Bainbridge, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 955 900
- Coordinates
- 54.30573, -2.07056
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Summer Tree House and the attached outbuilding are located in Worton and date back to 1729, built for Michael Smith. The house is constructed of coursed rubble, while the outbuilding is made of rubble as well, both featuring stone slate roofs. The house has two storeys and includes three first-floor windows and a rear out-shut. Notable architectural features include quoins and a central four-panel door set in an ashlar quoined surround, which has ogee moulding on the chamfer. The lintel above the door has a triangular soffit and decorative motifs on the spandrels, along with an inscription reading "M:S.1729" accompanied by additional decorative motifs. Above the lintel, there is a square plaque with a scar indicating that something has been removed. The house also features three-light chamfered windows with architraves and flat-faced mullions, except for the single-light window above the door. Corniced end stacks are present as well. The outbuilding to the right has board doors on both the ground and first floors, with stone steps leading up to the first floor. On the left side of the house, there are two single-light windows in architraves; the ground floor window has a stone panel crudely inscribed with "MICHAEL SMITH MECHANICK BUT HE THAT BUILT ALL THINGS IS GOD Heb.3," while the first-floor window features a keystone.
Local climate
Summer Tree House and Attached Outbuilding sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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