South View is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1986. Almshouse. 1 related planning application.
South View
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-grate-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 1986
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- South View, 1 and 2, Low Abbotside, North Yorkshire, DL8 3BL
- OS grid reference
- SD 937 909
- Coordinates
- 54.31427, -2.09821
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South View consists of two cottages that were originally built as six almshouses in 1807 for Christopher Alderson. The building has been altered in 1880 and subsequently. It is constructed of rubble with a stone slate roof and is a single storey with six cells, featuring a bay added to the left. The structure has quoins and two 20th-century part-glazed doors in chamfered ashlar surrounds, which are topped with slab cornices supported on plain brackets.
The original window openings have chamfered ashlar surrounds with hood-moulds, but they now contain casements. From left to right, there is a 20th-century window in the recent addition, a doorway, two original windows, an inserted window, two original windows, a blocked doorway, another inserted window, two original windows, and a doorway. There are stacks located between windows one and two, and between windows eight and nine.
On the right return, there is a gable plaque that reads, "These Alms-houses were appointed and endowed in the year 1807 by Christopher Alderson of Hommerton, Middlesex, Esquire. A Native of Askrigg." The almshouses were originally intended to house six poor women and were named Dale Grange almshouses after the nearby site of Fors Abbey, which became a grange of Jervaulx. The number of almshouses was reduced to three in 1880, and they have recently been converted into two cottages.
Local climate
South View 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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