Morton House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1966. House.
Morton House
- WRENN ID
- distant-ember-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Morton House, 24, Park Street, Masham, HG4 4HN
- OS grid reference
- SE 223 806
- Coordinates
- 54.22111, -1.65829
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Morton House is a late 17th-century house located on Masham Park Street. It is constructed from coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and three first-floor windows, although one of these is blocked. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door set within a moulded stone architrave, flanked by 19th-century canted bay windows. On the first floor, there are four-pane sash windows also in moulded stone architraves. To the left, there is a small blind opening with a moulded architrave. The attic storey includes three small blind openings with moulded architraves, and to the left, there is a blind oval opening. The house has end stacks.
Local climate
Morton House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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