Manor House with Front Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
Manor House with Front Garden Wall
- WRENN ID
- proud-ledge-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor House with Front Garden Wall, Crow Hill Lane, Birstwith, HG3 2LG
- OS grid reference
- SE 226 579
- Coordinates
- 54.01704, -1.65563
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House with front garden wall dates from 1842. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone with a grey slate roof. The house is a square, two-storey building of three bays, with cellars beneath the rear rooms. A central 20th-century glazed door, with an overlight, is set beneath a porch supported by two Ionic columns, a deep entablature, and a cornice. The ground floor has eight-pane casement windows, while the first floor has fifteen-pane sash windows, all in architraves. Deep eaves are carried on wooden consoles, and the roof is shallowly hipped, with side stacks and coupled flues. The rear elevation features a late 20th-century door and two small first-floor windows, with the remainder of the windows being original sashes. The left return has a blind window on the ground floor, centrally placed, with another window mirroring the front. The right return has an entrance, now partially covered by a 20th-century single-story addition.
Inside, original four-panel doors, a staircase with waisted balusters and a ramped handrail, and window shutters remain. The cellars are stone-built, containing two arched vaults: one over a well, and the other over a culvert (both now covered), leading to the road.
The garden wall, approximately 30 by 20 metres, encloses the garden on the north, east (front), and south sides of the house. The north (south-facing) wall is the tallest, reaching approximately 4 metres, with a deep ramp down to 1.5 metres across the east front of the house. The south side has the lowest wall, with steps down to an enclosed paddock or orchard. A low wooden gate is located on the east side, and a board door is on the north side. The wall is topped with flat coping of large slabs.
Local climate
Manor House with Front Garden Wall receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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 — 4 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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