Highfield is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1984. House. 10 related planning applications.
Highfield
- WRENN ID
- seventh-steeple-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Highfield, Palace Road, Ripon, HG4 2SG
- OS grid reference
- SE 309 720
- Coordinates
- 54.14303, -1.52803
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highfield is a mid-19th century house constructed of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings. The house is two storeys high, with a three-storey tower and attics featuring shaped gables. It has mullion and transom casement windows. A porte-cochere with three round arches fronts the house; the arches are built of channelled ashlar voussoirs with taller keystones, the central arch being the largest. The tower has a flat roof with a moulded cornice and paired ashlar brackets, and includes a semi-circular first-floor oriel on a moulded ashlar squinch. The south elevation features two oblong two-storey bay windows. The group value of Highfield derives from its contribution to the setting of Ripon Palace Road.
Local climate
Highfield receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 — 8 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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