Rowland Hall is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1966. House. 2 related planning applications.
Rowland Hall
- WRENN ID
- gilded-gargoyle-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Goole and Pocklington MP: David Davis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rowland Hall, Rowlandhall Lane, Wressle, DN14 7JU
- OS grid reference
- SE 724 308
- Coordinates
- 53.7687, -0.90207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rowland Hall is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of brick in Flemish bond, featuring stone dressings, and has roofs made of concrete tiles and slate. The building has a central hallway entry flanked by service wings. It stands two stories tall with three bays, including an advanced central gabled bay, and single-storey, two-bay service wings. Access is via steps leading to a six-panel door that is topped by a radial glazed fanlight, set within a doorcase adorned with attached Doric columns, dooserets, and an open pediment.
On the left side, there are 16-pane sash windows, while the right side has 4-pane sashes. A first-floor band runs along the main house. The service wings feature hipped roofs and end stacks. On the first floor, there are 16-pane sashes in the centre and left, and a 4-pane sash on the right. All windows have keyed wedge lintels, and there is an oval oculus in the gable.
Inside, there is an open-string staircase with turned balusters and a modillion cornice in the hall. The sitting room is lavishly decorated, featuring a fireplace with paired attached columns that have palm leaf capitals and a foliage motif in the spaces between. This fireplace carries a frieze with a central plaque depicting Roman figures in relief, flanked by panels with reliefs of fox heads and hunting horns above festoons, and outer panels with medallions that possibly represent wood sprites. The room also has an oak leaf cornice, a dado rail, and plain panelling. The fireplace is flanked by round-arched alcoves with reeded pilasters, foliage, dentilled friezes, and guilloches on the soffit of the arches. The ceiling cornice features acanthus leaves, dentils, and paterae, while an elaborate ceiling rose displays festoons, paterae, and radial foliage motifs.
Local climate
Rowland Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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