Byards Lodge and Byards Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. House. 5 related planning applications.
Byards Lodge and Byards Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-portal-fen
- 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
- Byards Lodge and Byards Cottage, 2, 3, Boroughbridge Road, Knaresborough, HG5 0LT
- OS grid reference
- SE 347 574
- Coordinates
- 54.01234, -1.47098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Byards Lodge and Byards Cottage comprise a large house, now divided into two separate dwellings, dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. The construction uses dressed limestone with a slate roof.
Byards Lodge (originally No. 3) is a two-storey, three-bay main block, with single-storey, one-bay wings flanking it. The central entrance features a six-panel double door with a fanlight, and is flanked by Tuscan columns supporting a triangular pediment. Four-pane sash windows with flat arches are present throughout. The building has a wooden dentilled eaves cornice and end stacks to the two-storey block. The wings are topped with coping stones and ball finials. An attic window with interlaced glazing bars is positioned on the left return of the central block.
The left return, now Byards Cottage, features a single-storey, one-bay wing projecting from the right side of the main range. A two-storey, two-bay extension to the left was likely originally used as a service area. The central bay of this section has a semicircular plan on both the ground and first floors. Modern doors are present in the left and right bays. A sixteen-pane sash window is located to the right of the left door, and sixteen- and four-pane sashes are situated above. The central bay has sash windows with glazing bars and margin lights. The building has plain sills and lintels. The roof slopes downwards to the left, with a stack at eaves, while the right side has a separate stack. A conical roof covers the central, semicircular bay.
Local climate
Byards Lodge and Byards Cottage 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 — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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