Fort Horn is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. Folly, house. 2 related planning applications.
Fort Horn
- WRENN ID
- third-chalk-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- Folly, house
- Address
- Fort Horn, Thornton Steward, HG4 4BD
- OS grid reference
- SE 177 871
- Coordinates
- 54.2795, -1.72836
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fort Horn is a folly that has been converted into a house, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of rubble and features lead roofs. The building has a three-storey central bay that is flanked by symmetrical single-storey bays. The central bay includes a rendered canted bay with early 20th-century sash windows set in plain stone surrounds, along with a glazed garden door on the ground floor. The structure is topped with a castellated parapet. The flanking bays are adorned with Venetian windows that have intersecting glazing bars and also feature castellated parapets.
Local climate
Fort Horn receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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