Spensley 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. 2 related planning applications.
Spensley House
- WRENN ID
- solitary-roof-reed
- 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
- Spensley House, Melbecks, North Yorkshire, DL11 6LG
- OS grid reference
- SD 949 981
- Coordinates
- 54.37917, -2.07904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spensley House is a house built around 1820, constructed from well-coursed watershot sandstone with ashlar dressings and a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and three bays, featuring projecting quoins and ashlar surrounds around the openings. The central door has six glazed panels beneath an oblong four-pane fanlight. The house includes sash windows with a sill band on the ground floor. A stone gutter with a classical cornice section projects just to the right of the centre, surrounding a rainwater pipe. The rear elevation features a round-headed landing window with glazing bars and Gothick tracery. The name 'SPENSLEY HOUSE' is carved in good lettering on the quoin on the right return. Inside, there are six-panel doors, three-panel window shutters, simple cornices, and a staircase with square-section balusters and turned newels.
Local climate
Spensley 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 — 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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