The Keyhole is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1969. House.

The Keyhole

WRENN ID
keen-keep-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North York Moors National Park
Constituency
Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 October 1969
Type
House
Address
The Keyhole, Bakehouse Steps, Fylingdales, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
NZ 952 050
Coordinates
54.43176, -0.53343
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Keyhole is an 18th-century house located in Robin Hood's Bay. It features lightly-tooled coursed sandstone with later pointing and a pantiled roof that has stone coping and footstones, along with a brick chimney. The building has a gable end facing the road and consists of two storeys and an attic, with one main bay and a lean-to half-bay on the left. The ground floor includes a rear extension of a fish shop, which is not of special interest. There are steps leading up to the first-floor entrance on the left side. A large square oriel window is present on the front at the first floor, and there is a Yorkshire sash window in the attic. A modern casement window is located in the set-back left bay, and there is a boarded door on the left return. The roof coping features raised block footstones, and the end chimney is corniced. The building is included for its group value.

Local climate

The Keyhole receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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