Old Spa Villa is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1968. House. 2 related planning applications.

Old Spa Villa

WRENN ID
tattered-pediment-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1968
Type
House
Address
Old Spa Villa, Richmond Road, Croft-On-Tees, DL2 2TQ
OS grid reference
NZ 282 092
Coordinates
54.47801, -1.56631
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Spa Villa is a house built in the early 19th century, likely for Sir William Chaytor and possibly designed by Ignatius Bonomi. It features brown brick construction and a 20th-century concrete interlocking tile roof. The building has one and two storeys, arranged in a 2:3:2 bay configuration, with a rear outshut to the central two-storey range. This central section has a first-floor string course and eaves band, and all openings are topped with flat brick arches.

In the central bay, there is a recessed blocked doorway with a blind window above it. The windows are sash style with glazing bars and ashlar sills. The roof is hipped with a central chimney stack. The outer bays are single-storey pavilions, each featuring an inner board door below a three-pane overlight, with windows matching those in the central section. The roofs of these pavilions are hipped towards the outer ends, with an end stack on the left.

Nearby, a sulphurous spring flows into the stream. The Old Spa was developed as a spa resort starting in 1808, although the waters had been known since the 17th century.

Local climate

Old Spa Villa receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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