Gashouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1987. Disused gashouse.

Gashouse

WRENN ID
veiled-gargoyle-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 July 1987
Type
Disused gashouse
Address
Gashouse, Appleton East and West
OS grid reference
SE 225 943
Coordinates
54.34452, -1.65417
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Gashouse is a disused structure from the mid to late 19th century, built for the Duke of Leeds of Hornby Castle. It is constructed of brick and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is one and a half storeys tall and has two first-floor windows, with a single-storey range extending at right angles to the right side. The roof has a raised and louvred apex.

The north elevation is gabled, featuring a central blocked doorway with a segmental-arched lintel, and similar lintels above the first-floor windows. There is also a blocked oculus in the gable and a raised verge detailed at the apex with a raised and louvred ridge. At the west end of the lower range, there are double board doors beneath a timber lintel, creating a cart entrance.

Inside, there are fragments of retorts at the south end, along with metal-framed roof trusses and a boarded roof. This building is a rare example of an estate gashouse in this part of North Yorkshire.

Local climate

Gashouse receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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