Nos 5 and 6 Benson's Yard is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1972. Residential building.
Nos 5 and 6 Benson's Yard
- WRENN ID
- calm-vault-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1972
- Type
- Residential building
- Address
- Nos 5 and 6 Benson's Yard, Church Street, Whitby
- OS grid reference
- NZ 900 112
- Coordinates
- 54.48858, -0.6118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 5 and 6 Benson's Yard are 18th-century buildings located on Church Street. They are two storeys high and constructed of brick, with a pantile roof and some rendered sections. Each house has two windows: No 5 features two double-hung sash windows with late 19th-century glazing on the first floor and two fixed lights with one opening section on the ground floor. No 6 has 19th-century windows without glazing bars. Both properties have plain doors topped with sloped hoods supported by consoles, and there is one step leading up to the doors. Nos 3 to 7 Benson's Yard are part of a group.
Local climate
Nos 5 and 6 Benson's Yard receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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