Fern House and Fern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1987. House, cottage. 8 related planning applications.
Fern House and Fern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- woven-wicket-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1987
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- Fern House and Fern Cottage, 10 and 12, East Road, Melsonby, DL10 5NF
- OS grid reference
- NZ 198 083
- Coordinates
- 54.47055, -1.69458
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fern House and Fern Cottage are a house and cottage, probably dating from the late 17th to early 18th century, with alterations from the early 19th century. The buildings have a roughcast exterior and a pantile roof. The main house, positioned to the right, has two storeys and a 1:3 window arrangement on the first floor. It features a central 20th-century part-glazed door in a deep ashlar surround with a cornice, and 16-pane sash windows on the ground floor. The first floor has a 16-pane sash window alongside two sash windows with glazing bars, all with projecting ashlar sills. Brick end stacks are present. To the left is a former cottage, with a 20th-century door with a timber cornice on the ground floor to the right, and two 16-pane sash windows on each floor to the left. Raised verges and a rebuilt brick stack to the left end are noted. A bay with a board door leading to a passage is located on the ground floor to the right. The buildings are included in the list for their group value. Rear outshuts, with an irregular plan, are present.
Local climate
Fern House and Fern Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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