Dilston House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1969. House, farmhouse, granary.

Dilston House

WRENN ID
third-slate-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1969
Type
House, farmhouse, granary
Address
Dilston House, Lucy Cross Road, Aldbrough
OS grid reference
NZ 204 117
Coordinates
54.50055, -1.68588
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dilston House is a building that originated as two houses, later becoming a farmhouse and granary, and is now a single residence. It dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with some later alterations. The structure is made of roughcast rubble and features pantile and Welsh slate roofs. It has two storeys and a total of five first-floor windows, with an added rear outshut on the right-hand side.

The left house has a central part-glazed six-panel door set in a quoined ashlar surround, which includes ogee moulding at the edges. To the right of the door is a large four-pane sash window, while the left side is obscured by a single-storey range that projects forward. On the first floor, there is a two-light casement window and a sash window with glazing bars, which has an exposed sash box and a lintel that originates from a two-light mullion window. The roof is covered with pantiles, and there is a brick stack at the left end.

The right house also features a central part-glazed six-panel door in a quoined ashlar surround with ogee moulding. It has canted bay windows with flat lead roofs on both sides of the door. The first floor has sash windows with glazing bars, exposed sash boxes, and ashlar sills and lintels. This section has a Welsh slate roof and brick stacks at the ends.

At the rear of the left house, there is a quoined surround to a segmental-arched opening that was formerly used for the granary but is now blocked. The left return features two 20th-century ground-floor four-pane sash windows and a first-floor single-light ashlar chamfered window. The right return has a ground-floor blocked single-light window and a first-floor blocked single-light ashlar chamfered window. The building was formerly known as Close House Farm.

Local climate

Dilston House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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