Donkin House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1988. House. 4 related planning applications.
Donkin House
- WRENN ID
- silver-quoin-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Donkin House, Leeming Lane, Burton in Lonsdale, LA6 3LD
- OS grid reference
- SD 651 720
- Coordinates
- 54.14348, -2.53506
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Donkin House is a 17th-century house located in Burton in Lonsdale. It features a pebbledash exterior with painted stone dressings and a slate roof. The entrance, positioned to the left of the center, has a moulded surround and a basket-arched head. To the left of the entrance is a ground-floor window with a plain rendered surround and twelve-pane sash windows. To the right, there is a narrow ground-floor single-light chamfered window with a fixed light. On the upper floor, there are three windows with rendered surrounds, which include eight-pane sashes, a fixed light, and six-pane sashes, respectively. The house has left-hand ridge and right-hand gable end stacks. The right-hand return features a ground-floor two-light double chamfered window with 20th-century casements to the left and a tall 20th-century window to the right.
Local climate
Donkin House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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