Hobs Stone at Ngr SE 589 504 is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1971. Monument.
Hobs Stone at Ngr SE 589 504
- WRENN ID
- inner-oriel-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1971
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Hobs Stone at Ngr SE 589 504, Tadcaster Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 589 504
- Coordinates
- 53.94653, -1.1039
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hob's Stone is a coffin lid that has been later re-set in an upright position. It is probably from the early 14th century, with an adjacent basin stone that may date to the 17th century and features an 18th-century inscription. The stone is made of limestone and measures approximately 0.4 metres by 0.5 metres and stands 1.0 metre high. The west face displays a weathered effigy of a knight holding a shield of arms, while the east face has a worn and now illegible 18th-century inscription. On the east side, there is a flat stone with an upper face measuring approximately 0.6 metres square, which has a shallow basin cut into it. This basin is reputed to have been used for disinfecting money during the plague in York.
Local climate
Hobs Stone at Ngr SE 589 504 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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