The Low House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
The Low House
- WRENN ID
- roaming-lancet-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Low House, Keld Head, Pickering, YO18 8LL
- OS grid reference
- SE 787 845
- Coordinates
- 54.25097, -0.79335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Low House is a 17th-century house situated between Keld Head Farm and The Low House Farm, forming a group with the nearby Keld Head Farmhouse. The house is constructed of small, coursed stone and has a pantile roof with coped gable ends and three brick stacks. The exterior is heavily covered in ivy. It has three windows to each floor, with windows featuring wood lintels and casements with leaded lights. The ground floor has three windows and a doorway. To the left is an adjoining outbuilding with a single window and a ventilation slit above a carriage entry. The ground floor also includes two blocked openings with wood lintels, and a lower extension with ventilation openings. The rear wing has windows with wood lintels. Originally, the house was the home of the Piper family, who owned Captain Scoresby's whaling ship.
Local climate
The Low House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 1998
- 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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