Nurses Home of Raikeswood Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1976. Nurses home. 1 related planning application.
Nurses Home of Raikeswood Hospital
- WRENN ID
- open-newel-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1976
- Type
- Nurses home
- Address
- Nurses Home of Raikeswood Hospital, Gargrave Road, Skipton, BD23 1QG
- OS grid reference
- SD 984 519
- Coordinates
- 53.96403, -2.02477
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nurses Home of Raikeswood Hospital is a small villa-type house located to the north of the original hospital block, built around 1840. It is constructed of stone and has two high storeys with a slate roof and a symmetrical front. The centre features a pedimented projection that includes a round-arched doorway, with a round-arched window above it. On either side of the building, there are two 24-paned sash windows on each floor.
Local climate
Nurses Home of Raikeswood Hospital 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- 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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