Fern Lea is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1988. House.
Fern Lea
- WRENN ID
- scattered-oriel-pigeon
- 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
- Fern Lea, High Street, Burton in Lonsdale, LA6 3JR
- OS grid reference
- SD 652 722
- Coordinates
- 54.14494, -2.53385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fern Lea is a former police house, now a residential home, built around the 1830s. The building features squared coursed rubble with stone dressings and a stone slate roof. It is two storeys tall and has a double fronted design. The entrance has a plain surround and a 20th-century door, along with a rectangular fanlight above. On each floor, there are two windows with plain surrounds and sashes that include glazing bars. There are also traces of a blocked central window in the stonework of the upper floor. The building is accented with chamfered quoins and has a ridge stack located on the left side.
Local climate
Fern Lea 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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