Number 2 Newbiggin (Unicorn Hotel) Together with Numbers 1 and 3 Rosemary Lane is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1967. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
Number 2 Newbiggin (Unicorn Hotel) Together with Numbers 1 and 3 Rosemary Lane
- WRENN ID
- low-spire-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 1967
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Number 2 Newbiggin (Unicorn Hotel) Together with Numbers 1 and 3 Rosemary Lane, Richmond, DL10 4DT
- OS grid reference
- NZ 170 009
- Coordinates
- 54.4039, -1.7396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 2 Newbiggin, also known as the Unicorn Hotel, along with Numbers 1 and 3 Rosemary Lane, is a small two-storey building dating from the mid 18th century or earlier. The exterior is roughly rendered, with the ground floor also rendered, and it features a Welsh slate roof. The elevation facing Rosemary Lane has a roof covered with large slates and a central brick chimney stack.
There are three windows on this side, which are hung sashes without glazing bars. Additionally, there is one plain 19th-century shop window and door, along with two windows that have a door with six panels set back. The Newbiggin elevation has a taller section to the left, with one window on each storey in a moulded frame. To the right, there are two windows on the first floor, each with three lights and sliding sashes with glazing bars. The ground floor has two sash windows, one with glazing bars and one modern window. To the left, there is a stone round-headed doorcase featuring a keystone and a semi-circular fanlight.
Numbers 2 to 12 (even) form a group.
Local climate
Number 2 Newbiggin (Unicorn Hotel) Together with Numbers 1 and 3 Rosemary Lane 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 lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 — 10 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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