Dial House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Dial House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-baluster-grove
- 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
- Dial House, Melbecks, North Yorkshire, KT6 6EA
- OS grid reference
- SD 952 982
- Coordinates
- 54.3796, -2.07459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dial House is a mid-18th century building that originally consisted of two cottages but is now a single house. It is constructed of coursed rubble with a stone slate roof and has two storeys. The front features two first-floor windows, and the openings are framed with ashlar stone surrounds. There is a central 20th-century six-panel door set in a surround with jambs on plinth blocks. The ground floor has a window to the right with a chamfered surround and an unequally-hung sash, while the other windows are fitted with 16-pane sashes. A second doorway on the right has been converted into a window.
Inside, there is a fire window on the left with a salt box, as well as a stone-built beehive and a bread oven. A wooden spiral staircase winds around the oven projection at the rear. Dial House is historically significant as it was used for the first meetings of the Methodists after John Wesley visited the Dale in 1774, until the first chapel was built in 1789.
Local climate
Dial House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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