Skelton's Tower is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1986. Tower, shooting lodge. 1 related planning application.
Skelton's Tower
- WRENN ID
- floating-parapet-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1986
- Type
- Tower, shooting lodge
- Address
- Skelton's Tower, Corn Hill Point, Levisham, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 820 928
- Coordinates
- 54.3248, -0.7406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Skelton's Tower is an early 19th-century shooting lodge built for Reverend Robert Skelton. It is constructed from dressed sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings and has a square plan. The building is two stories high with a single bay front. There is a doorway to the right featuring a bordered herringbone-tooled lintel, and a pointed window in a plain raised surround to the left on the first floor. A similar window is found on the first floor of the return wall to the left. The windows retain remnants of iron glazing bars. Inside, a plain staircase rises against the wall to the left of the entrance, and there is a small fireplace in a plain raised surround on the first floor. The tower is an important local landmark, situated high on a hilltop overlooking the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in Newtondale. It was noted to be part ruined at the time of resurvey.
Local climate
Skelton's Tower receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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