Avon House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1966. House. 3 related planning applications.
Avon House
- WRENN ID
- slow-newel-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Avon House, 6, Market Place, Masham, HG4 4EB
- OS grid reference
- SE 224 807
- Coordinates
- 54.22184, -1.657
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Avon House is a late 18th-century house located on the west side of Market Place in Masham. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and has a Welsh slate roof. It is three storeys high and originally two bays wide. The central entrance features a four-panel door flanked by large 20th-century windows. The first floor has two eight-pane sash windows, each with a stone lintel and sill. The second floor has two twelve-pane side-sliding sashes, again with stone lintels and sills. Chimneys are situated at either end of the building.
Local climate
Avon House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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