8, Castle Yard is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. House. 11 related planning applications.
8, Castle Yard
- WRENN ID
- little-spandrel-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8, Castle Yard, Knaresborough, HG5 8AS
- OS grid reference
- SE 349 569
- Coordinates
- 54.00769, -1.4682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, now a house, was originally a dispensary constructed in 1853. It is located within Knaresborough Castle Yard, on the north side. Constructed from millstone grit, it features a Westmorland slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has three bays, with the central bay projecting. The main entrance is through a four-panel door set within a portico of Tuscan columns that support an entablature with triglyphs, a dentilled cornice, and a triangular pediment. Throughout the building, there are 8-pane casement windows set within stone architraves. The upper levels display shaped brackets and kneelers, a moulded eaves cornice, and a corniced triangular pediment over the central bay. A stone coping runs along the roofline, punctuated by corniced end stacks. An inscription within the triangular pediment reads “DISPENSARY. ERECTED IN MEMORY OF THE LATE VICAR THE REV. A CHEAP LLB. MDCCCLIII”.
Local climate
8, Castle Yard receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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