Brief House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. House.
Brief House
- WRENN ID
- noble-pinnacle-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brief House, Kirkgate, Middleham
- OS grid reference
- SE 127 878
- Coordinates
- 54.28593, -1.806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brief House is a house dating from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of rubble with a Welsh slate roof and has two storeys and three bays. The central bay projects slightly and features a three-Gothic-panel board and studded door set within a plain ashlar surround, topped with a plain cornice. Above the door is a square ashlar panel with a raised motif. The windows are two-light casements with Gothic glazing, projecting sills, and sill-like lintels. A string-course runs along the building, and the roof has ashlar copings in the form of Dutch gables, with paired round chimneys at each end.
Local climate
Brief House receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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