Mount House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1988. Hunting lodge, cottage. 1 related planning application.
Mount House
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-marble-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1988
- Type
- Hunting lodge, cottage
- Address
- Mount House, Yearsley Road, Oulston, YO61 3RD
- OS grid reference
- SE 557 750
- Coordinates
- 54.16824, -1.14787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mount House is a hunting lodge with an attached cottage, built in the early to mid-18th century, with the cottage added in the early to mid-19th century. The original section was constructed for the 4th Viscount Fauconberg. The building features ashlar sandstone and coursed dressed sandstone, topped with Westmorland slate roofs. It has two storeys and a symmetrical façade with one bay on each side.
The lodge is made of ashlar stone with a rubble plinth and chamfered rusticated quoins. It has a round arch that extends through both storeys, featuring a recessed panel with a round-arched window on the ground floor, which has projecting imposts and keystones. There is a sill band on the first floor, which includes a two-light casement window. A moulded cornice runs along the top, and the hipped roof has a plinth at the apex where a finial was once placed but has since been removed.
To the right is the cottage, which has two lower storeys. It features a four-panel door with an overlight on the left side, and each floor has a side-sliding sash window. An end stack is located to the right of the cottage. The rear of the lodge has blind openings and an eaves stack. The left side of the lodge matches the front elevation. Mount House is situated at the highest point in Newburgh Park.
Local climate
Mount House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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