Abbey House Ruins of Monastic Barn is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 1986. Ruins of barn. 1 related planning application.
Abbey House Ruins of Monastic Barn
- WRENN ID
- lunar-mantel-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 1986
- Type
- Ruins of barn
- Address
- Abbey House Ruins of Monastic Barn, Easby, DL10 7EU
- OS grid reference
- NZ 185 001
- Coordinates
- 54.39679, -1.71608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ruins of a barn, largely converted into a house, date back to the 14th century, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. Constructed from rubble sandstone with a stone slate roof, the riverside (west) elevation features two storeys and two bays internally, extending to six. Abbey House is situated to the left, displaying 20th-century window openings. The barn incorporates small lancet windows in each ground-floor bay. On the first floor, in the second and fifth bays, are pitching doorways with stone platforms supported on corbels, and two lancet windows with labels. The roof is missing. The continuation of the west elevation to the right appears medieval but has no distinct architectural features.
The east elevation’s barn section features a wide opening with a segmental arch reconstructed from chamfered stones, bearing the inscription "WSS 73" on the keystone, alongside a pitching doorway and the chamfered surround of a two-light mullion window on the first floor. Adjacent to this, Abbey House displays a central doorway with dogtooth decoration on the jambs and a shouldered head, flanked by four-pane windows with shouldered heads – the right window is positioned below an ogee arch with carving. An external stack is located at the right end. To the left are 19th-century farm buildings built into and onto the southern side of the barn, which are not considered to have group value.
Inside the barn, the ground-floor openings on the west side have deeply-splayed reveals. The end walls show steeply-pitched gables. The medieval barn was originally part of the Premonstratensian Abbey of St Agatha.
Local climate
Abbey House Ruins of Monastic Barn 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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