High Roof is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. House.

High Roof

WRENN ID
idle-corner-plum
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
House
Address
High Roof, Blades, Melbecks, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
SD 979 985
Coordinates
54.38264, -2.0326
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

High Roof is a house dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of coursed watershot rubble and features a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and originally had three first floor windows, although the bay on the right is a 20th-century addition. The entrance consists of a boarded door set in an ashlar surround with interrupted jambs, positioned between the original two bays. The windows have chamfered ashlar surrounds and show signs of having iron bars on the outside face. The four-pane sash windows are slightly wider on the left side of the door. The right bay includes a garage door with a matching window surround made of cement above it. There is an end stack to the left of the building.

Local climate

High Roof 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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