Former Gas House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 1986. Gas house.
Former Gas House
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-chamber-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 1986
- Type
- Gas house
- Address
- Former Gas House, Richmondshire Recreation Centre, St. Martin'S
- OS grid reference
- NZ 177 008
- Coordinates
- 54.40264, -1.72753
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former gas house, built around 1846, was designed by G T Andrews for George Hudson's Great North of England Railway. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is single storey and consists of three bays with quoins. It has three tall round-arched openings with quoined edges and ashlar voussoirs, creating the appearance of an arcade. The central opening has board doors, while the outer openings are double-arched, with glazing in the tympana above recessed rubble blocking. The hipped roof includes a raised louvred ventilator along the apex. Inside, there are two round-arched furnaces made of burnt bricks on the left side. This gas house served only the station complex, as it is located on the opposite side of the river from Richmond's gasworks. The chimney has been demolished, and the building was in a derelict state at the time of the last survey. It is part of an important group of surviving railway buildings.
Local climate
Former Gas House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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