Leigh House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. House.
Leigh House
- WRENN ID
- cold-rood-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- Leigh House, Main Street, Austwick, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 768 686
- Coordinates
- 54.11277, -2.35622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leigh House is a house dating from the 1740s, with some alterations made in the 20th century. It is constructed of slobbered rubble with stone dressings and has a stone slate roof. The house features a central staircase plan and is two storeys tall with a double fronted design. The central entrance is adorned with an eared architrave and a pulvinated frieze that includes a central five-pointed star, topped with a shallow hood. The entrance door is a four-panel design. There are two windows on each storey, with chamfered surrounds; the ground floor windows are sashes without glazing bars, while the upper floor has 20th-century casements. In the centre of the upper floor, there is a chamfered blind oculus. The gable ends have ridge stacks.
Local climate
Leigh House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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