Woodthorpe Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1953. House.

Woodthorpe Hall

WRENN ID
standing-alcove-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wakefield
Constituency
Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1953
Type
House
Address
Woodthorpe Hall, Woodthorpe Lane
OS grid reference
SE 340 169
Coordinates
53.6478, -1.48567
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Woodthorpe Hall is a 17th-century house that has undergone alterations. It is two stories tall and features a central, three-bay block with hip roofs and one-bay side wings. The exterior is made of coursed, squared, smoothed stone. The entrance front has a cornice band that runs continuously with the gable coping of the outer sections, and there is a parapet in front of the stone-flagged roof. The right extension is a blank two-story structure. There are stone stacks on the ridge and at the gable peaks. The windows are early 19th-century sash windows with glazing bars, set in raised stone surrounds, while the garden front shows traces of 17th-century window frames.

On the ground floor, tripartite windows flank a six-panel door that is sheltered by a prostyle Tuscan porch. The west return has a similar style and includes repairs to the stonework. There is also a tripartite window on the garden front extension. Inside, most of the woodwork is early 19th-century, with one 17th-century fireplace and a three-panel ceiling featuring deep cornices dating from around 1700. A wood ribbed quadrant in one corner of the drawing room suggests a fan vault. The dining room and other areas feature exposed heavy chamfered beams and joists. A wall running west from the south-west corner, which has a demolished building behind it, is likely from the 18th century.

Local climate

Woodthorpe 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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