Royal Shepherd Public House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 March 1978. Public house. 10 related planning applications.
Royal Shepherd Public House
- WRENN ID
- standing-hearth-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 March 1978
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Royal Shepherd Public House, 4, Watsons Houses, Skipton
- OS grid reference
- SD 988 516
- Coordinates
- 53.96127, -2.01887
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Shepherd Public House is a late Georgian building that has been cement-rendered over stone and stands two storeys tall. The gable end facing the canal features a central panelled door with a fanlight set in a plain stone frame. On the ground floor, there are two sash windows, while the upper floor has three sash windows and a double sash window in the gable. The left-hand side of the building has altered openings on the ground floor, with three sash windows above, of which two are original 25-paned sashes.
Local climate
Royal Shepherd Public House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% 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 — 5 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- 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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