Grotto, 120 Metres North West of Skelton Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Redcar and Cleveland local planning authority area, England. Grotto.
Grotto, 120 Metres North West of Skelton Castle
- WRENN ID
- north-foundation-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Constituency
- Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland MP: Luke Myer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Grotto
- OS grid reference
- NZ 651 194
- Coordinates
- 54.56613, -0.99461
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grotto, located 120 meters north-west of Skelton Castle, is a late 18th-century structure. It is built of coursed sandstone rubble with a brick rear wall and features a half-domed roof. The south front is a single storey with three bays. In the center, there is a round-headed doorway with voussoirs, which is flanked by canted bays that each have a single rectangular opening. The interior consists of a semicircular-plan chamber.
Local climate
Grotto, 120 Metres North West of Skelton Castle receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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