Spital House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1970. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Spital House

WRENN ID
shadowed-gable-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 March 1970
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Spital House, Thirsk Road, Romanby, DL6 3SA
OS grid reference
SE 374 926
Coordinates
54.32806, -1.42528
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Spital House is a farmhouse that originated in the 16th century and was largely rebuilt in the 18th century to serve as both a house and a cottage. It features red brick in English garden wall bond and coursed rubblestone, topped with a pantile roof. The building has two storeys and is arranged in a 1:2 bay configuration, with the left-hand bay being a lower cottage.

The house has a central board door with a 20th-century porch and sash windows with glazing bars, except for the ground-floor right window, which has a 20th-century casement. The ground-floor windows are topped with flat brick arches, and there are brick copings and end stacks. The cottage, which is set back, has a board door with a segmental brick arch to the right, a 4-pane sash window with a flat brick arch to the left, and a 12-pane side-sliding sash above. The cottage also features brick coping and a stack at the left end.

At the rear, the building displays late 16th-century rubblestone with quoins and shows evidence of stone mullions in the openings. The site is historically significant as it is located on the grounds of the medieval St James' hospital.

Local climate

Spital House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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