Donkey Road is a Grade I listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1972. Track. 1 related planning application.
Donkey Road
- WRENN ID
- tall-flagstone-heron
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1972
- Type
- Track
- Address
- Donkey Road, Whitby, YO22 4DP
- OS grid reference
- NZ 900 112
- Coordinates
- 54.48887, -0.61135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Donkey Road is a stone track located to the right of the Church Stairs, carved into the hillside and leading to Abbey House. A former Lord Mulgrave is noted for having driven a coach-and-four along this route in the 1780s, although most of the existing stones likely date from the 19th century. Donkey Road and the Church Stairs are recognized as a group.
Local climate
Donkey Road 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 greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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
- 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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