Greystones is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
Greystones
- WRENN ID
- empty-gable-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Greystones, Main Street, Towton, LS24 9PB
- OS grid reference
- SE 485 394
- Coordinates
- 53.84939, -1.26387
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greystones is a house, likely built in the mid-18th century, with later additions and alterations, including an extension to the left that is of no special interest. The structure is made of magnesian limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a cast-tile roof. It is originally T-shaped in plan with later infill and has two storeys and three bays. The building has quoins and the original entrance is located at the right gable end, featuring a 20th-century door within a renewed surround.
On the main facade, the ground floor has three-light mullion windows in the outer bays and a central single-light window, all framed by ashlar surrounds and fitted with 20th-century multi-paned casements. There is a first-floor band that continues around the gable ends. The first floor features outer bays with three-light thermal windows set within renewed ashlar surrounds and a round-arched central window, also with an ashlar surround, all equipped with 20th-century multi-paned casements. The roof is swept with ashlar coping and there is a stack at the rear. Additionally, there is a similar three-light rectangular and thermal window at the rear.
Local climate
Greystones receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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