Fern Villa is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. House.
Fern Villa
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-zinc-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fern Villa, West End, Ampleforth
- OS grid reference
- SE 579 786
- Coordinates
- 54.20025, -1.11357
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fern Villa is a house dating from the early 18th century, constructed from hammer-dressed limestone with a Welsh slate roof. Originally designed as a three-cell hearth-passage entry, it has since been converted into two separate dwellings.
The garden facade features two storeys and three windows on the first floor. The left side is completely obscured by ivy, but there is evidence of a blocked doorway with a window to the left. On the right side, there are two four-pane sash windows beneath wooden lintels. The first floor also has a window to the left that is obscured by overgrowth, and to the right, there are again two four-pane sashes. The roof is steeply pitched and includes a ridge stack and a stack at the right end.
Inside, the property retains original oak tie beams, along with a massive bressumer and an inglenook in the main room.
Local climate
Fern Villa 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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