Boathouse at South West End of Lake in Grounds of Kettlethorpe Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1953. Boathouse.
Boathouse at South West End of Lake in Grounds of Kettlethorpe Hall
- WRENN ID
- dusted-turret-umber
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1953
- Type
- Boathouse
- Address
- Boathouse at South West End of Lake in Grounds of Kettlethorpe Hall, Kettlethorpe Hall Drive
- OS grid reference
- SE 332 165
- Coordinates
- 53.64397, -1.49917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boathouse at the south-west end of the lake in the grounds of Kettlethorpe Hall is an early to mid-18th century garden house that has been altered to serve as a boathouse. It incorporates the original facade of St Mary's chapel from Wakefield Bridge, which was replaced by a reproduction in 1847. The structure features a broad, segmental-arched boat entrance with cut voussoirs and consists of five bays. Doorways alternate with tracery panels set in ogee crocketed frames within gables. Slender, panelled buttresses support the building, and the narrow outer bays have niches above them. A frieze depicting five relief panels illustrating the life of the Virgin is very badly weathered, and the parapet is mostly missing.
Local climate
Boathouse at South West End of Lake in Grounds of Kettlethorpe Hall receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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