The Motor House and Fowl House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1998. Motor house, fowl house.
The Motor House and Fowl House
- WRENN ID
- lost-vestry-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1998
- Type
- Motor house, fowl house
- Address
- The Motor House and Fowl House, Rounton Grange, East Rounton
- OS grid reference
- NZ 426 029
- Coordinates
- 54.4205, -1.34429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Motor House and Fowl House is a building from 1905, designed by George Jack for Hugh and Lothian Bell of Rounton Grange. It features a timber frame with a pantile roof, clapboard, and brick construction, and is two storeys high. The main front has four sets of double garage doors with glazed upper lights. To the right, there is a single sash window and a small projecting wing with a part-glazed door. To the left, there is another single sash window and a door with an overlight, followed by a projecting lean-to with two sets of similar garage doors.
Above, there are four pairs of sashes in raking dormers, with a small two-light casement to the left. The south gable end has an infilled brick ground floor, with an open sleeping platform above that features an ornate wooden balustrade and a pair of French windows. The rear facade has a recessed centre flanked by gabled cross wings, with the central section infilled by a late 20th-century glazed conservatory. The south gable has a single door and a casement window, with a side jettied upper floor that has a pair of sashes and a small casement. The north gable features three casements and a single sash above. The north front is dominated by an external brick stack with a date stone, and there is a doorway to the right, with different sashes on either side of the stack.
Additionally, there is a coach house built in 1875 by Philip Webb for Hugh and Lothian Bell. This structure is made of brick with a pantile roof and is also two storeys high, featuring low angle buttresses. Both the north and south gable walls have thicker lower sections with two blind four-centred arches rising into two tall buttresses, each topped with a single window. The east front is blank, while the west front has two stable doors and three windows above.
Local climate
The Motor House and Fowl House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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