Grove House and Rowden House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1966. Semi-detached houses.

Grove House and Rowden House

WRENN ID
waiting-alcove-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1966
Type
Semi-detached houses
Address
Grove House and Rowden House, Main Street, Hampsthwaite
OS grid reference
SE 257 584
Coordinates
54.02172, -1.60897
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Grove House and Rowden House are semi-detached houses that were originally a single dwelling, dated 1676. They were significantly extended and altered in the late 19th century. The buildings are constructed from coursed squared gritstone and feature a purple slate roof. They stand two storeys tall. The original house had three bays with a lobby-entrance plan, but it has now been divided into two houses, each with two bays: the left bay is part of Rowden House, while the remainder belongs to Grove House. The right side has quoins.

On the south front, there is a 20th-century glazed door located between the first and second bays of the original house. This door has moulded quoined jambs and a triangular soffit above the lintel, which bears the inscription "1676 SB". The ground floor features recessed chamfered mullion windows with three, three, and four lights, while the first floor has flat-faced mullion windows with one and two lights. There is a large stack with two flues on the ridge to the left of the entrance, marking the division between the two properties, along with banded end stacks. The rear of the building, which faces the road, has 19th-century windows that are not of special interest.

Local climate

Grove House and Rowden House 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 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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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