York House with Railings to Forecourt is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1985. House.

York House with Railings to Forecourt

WRENN ID
worn-chamber-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 December 1985
Type
House
Address
York House with Railings to Forecourt, 9, York Place, Knaresborough
OS grid reference
SE 352 569
Coordinates
54.00717, -1.46376
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

York House, with railings to the forecourt, is a house dating from the mid to late 18th century. It is constructed of limestone that is rendered and lined, with a roof that is not visible. The house has three storeys and five bays. There are three steps leading up to a wide six-panel door with a fanlight, which is flanked by Tuscan columns that support a fluted entablature and a dentilled triangular pediment.

On the ground floor, there are sash windows, with glazing bars in the top half of the windows on the right. The first floor features sash windows with glazing bars set in flush wood architraves. The second floor has two-light 20th-century casements in flush wood frames. The building has a ground-floor sill band and projecting sills on the first and second floors. All windows have projecting keystones beneath the rendering. The eaves cornice is moulded and dentilled, and there are white brick end stacks.

The forecourt is flanked by four short lengths of iron railings, with bars that have foliate finials and a top rail that ends in a scroll. This building was occupied by the military during the Second World War and was empty at the time of the resurvey.

Local climate

York House with Railings to Forecourt receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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