Westerdale Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1990. House, youth hostel. 1 related planning application.
Westerdale Hall
- WRENN ID
- steep-turret-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1990
- Type
- House, youth hostel
- Address
- Westerdale Hall, Main Street, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- NZ 662 060
- Coordinates
- 54.44529, -0.9799
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westerdale Hall is a house that has been converted into a youth hostel. Originally built as a shooting-box for the Duncombe family before 1874, it features coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, and roofs made of Lakeland slate and lead. The building is designed in a Baronial Tudor style and has a square plan with canted extensions on the southeast that enclose a service courtyard.
The elevations are very irregular, ranging from 1 to 5 storeys, with an even taller tower stair turret. The crow-stepped gables and stone-mullioned windows of various sizes, some with transoms, add to its character, although most of the window woodwork has been replaced.
The entrance front is 2 storeys high with attics of differing heights and consists of 3 irregular bays. It features a central open porch with a Tudor arch and a blank shield above it, along with a Tudor-arched inner door. To the left, there is a canted screen wall with another Tudor-arched door and an octagonal pavilion with a tented lead roof. The right side has battered lower courses and retains some original leaded glazing in the window heads. The garden front has a 3-bay layout with a gabled left bay that includes a 2-storey square window projection, a central stair window with armorial glass, and a massive 5-storey battlemented tower on the right.
Additionally, there is a row of conjoined diagonal stacks above the left ridge and another row on the 2-storey service wing on the south side of the courtyard.
Local climate
Westerdale Hall receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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