Spen House (Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings) is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Spen House (Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings)
- WRENN ID
- standing-attic-aspen
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Spen House (Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings), Skellgill Lane, Low Abbotside, North Yorkshire, DL8 3JG
- OS grid reference
- SD 929 915
- Coordinates
- 54.31937, -2.10941
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spen House is an early to mid-19th century farmhouse with attached outbuildings, built under a single roof. The building is constructed of coursed watershot rubble with a stone slate roof. The main farmhouse section is three bays wide, while the attached outbuildings extend for five bays. The farmhouse’s central entrance features a four-panel door set in an ashlar surround with moulded imposts and a pediment. It has 16-pane sash windows with slab sills and sill-like lintels, and end stacks. On the ground floor of the outbuildings, there is a partly-shuttered window, a board stable door, a board door, a shuttered opening, and board coach-house doors beneath a four-centred arch of rubble voussoirs with a hood-mould. The first floor of the outbuildings mirrors the farmhouse with 16-pane sash windows. Slab gutter brackets are present. A stack is located at the right-hand end. According to the North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 919, the building is an example of vernacular architecture.
Local climate
Spen House (Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings) 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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