Highfield House, with Garden Wall to Left is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. House. 4 related planning applications.
Highfield House, with Garden Wall to Left
- WRENN ID
- tattered-iron-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Highfield House, with Garden Wall to Left, Ripley Road, Bishop Thornton, Shaw Mills and Warsill, HG3 3JY
- OS grid reference
- SE 260 645
- Coordinates
- 54.07582, -1.60347
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highfield House is a house dating from the mid-18th century, situated just off Ripley Road in Bishop Thornton. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone, with a stone slate and pantile roof. The main part of the house is two storeys high and comprises two bays, with a lower bay attached to the right. The corners are accentuated by quoins. A central glazed door, inserted in the 20th century, is flanked by casement windows, which are of approximately 1975 date. These windows have glazing bars and are set within stone surrounds with chamfered jambs, although the central mullions have been removed. The roof features a gable coping, kneelers cut back, and end stacks, with the stack on the right rebuilt in concrete blocks.
At the rear, there is a blocked entrance to the right of centre and a blocked three-light mullioned window serving a cellar to the left, set within a double-chamfered surround. Above this is a single-light chamfered window, and another window illuminates the staircase to the left of the blocked door. A two-light mullioned window is located to the right, with two similar windows on the first floor, again with the mullions removed.
Attached to the house is a garden wall constructed of coursed rubble with an ashlar coping. The wall is approximately 1.5 metres high, rising to around 3.5 metres where it joins the house. The house was known as Church Farm until around 1900.
Local climate
Highfield House, with Garden Wall to Left receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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 2009
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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