Chestnut House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1989. House.

Chestnut House

WRENN ID
gilded-cupola-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 June 1989
Type
House
Address
Chestnut House, Main Street, Hebden, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
SE 027 628
Coordinates
54.06203, -1.95994
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chestnut House is a house dating from the late 17th century, with probable subdivision from the early 19th century and restoration completed in 1959. It is constructed of gritstone rubble and has a graduated stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and features four first-floor windows. The corners are marked by quoins.

To the right of the center, there is a 20th-century glazed door set in an elegant doorway with a segmental head and chamfered quoined jambs, where the chamfer includes a fillet and cyma moulding. The doorway is flanked by a two-light and a three-light flat-faced mullion window, both of which have been rebuilt. There is also an enlarged three-light mullioned window on the far left, featuring cyma moulded chamfers and extensive rebuilding.

On the first floor, there are two three-light recessed chamfered windows to the left and two three-light flat-faced mullion windows to the right, all of which have been rebuilt and are likely enlarged. The house has ashlar end stacks. The rear wall was rebuilt in a different alignment in 1959 and includes a chamfered segmental-headed doorway, with the lintel raised, located to the left of center, along with some reused recessed chamfered surrounds for the windows.

Inside, there is a wide segmental-arched fireplace with chamfered voussoirs and a brick-lined oven to the left of the entrance, which was rebuilt to the left during the 1959 restoration.

Local climate

Chestnut House 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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