High House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1986. House.
High House
- WRENN ID
- spare-steeple-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- High House, Swinton with Warthermarske
- OS grid reference
- SE 212 798
- Coordinates
- 54.21394, -1.67505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High House is a house built in the early 19th century. It is constructed from coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and features a graduated stone slate roof. The central three bays are two storeys high, while the left-hand bay is two storeys and the right-hand bay is one storey. The main entrance has a central four-panel door with an overlight above it. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, and on the first floor, there are two 16-pane sashes, with the central one being blind. All openings have plain ashlar surrounds. The house has shaped kneelers, stone coping, and end stacks. The left bay is set back and has 16-pane sashes, with its roof hipped to the left. The right bay features a two-light 19th-century bay window with sashes and a hipped roof, with the roof hipped to the right.
Local climate
High House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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