Brimham House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1987. House.
Brimham House
- WRENN ID
- far-spire-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brimham House, Brimham Moor Road, Hartwith Cum Winsley
- OS grid reference
- SE 206 650
- Coordinates
- 54.08093, -1.68637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brimham House is a house that now serves as a National Trust museum and offices. It was built in 1792 for Lord Grantley. The structure is made of coursed squared gritstone and has a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and five bays, with a rear outshut. The building features quoins and banded rustication on the southeast front. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door beneath a pitched slab hood supported by moulded brackets.
On the ground floor, there are 24-pane side-sliding sash windows set in stone surrounds with keyed arches. The first floor has keyed round-arched openings with 24-pane side-sliding sashes, each topped with a fanlight that includes glazing bars. The building also has shaped kneelers and gable coping. A stack is located at the centre of the rear roof. The rear outshut has 20th-century additions to the northwest.
On the left side, there is a three-sided two-storey bay, which may contain stairs. The right side features a blocked doorway with quoined jambs positioned between the ground and first-floor levels. Originally named The Rocks House, it was occupied by the caretaker of Brimham Rocks.
Local climate
Brimham House receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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