Beecroft Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1983. Farmhouse.
Beecroft Hall
- WRENN ID
- secret-slate-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Beecroft Hall, Horton in Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 799 726
- Coordinates
- 54.1489, -2.30843
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beecroft Hall is a former farmhouse, now unoccupied, dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with 19th-century alterations. The building is constructed of limewashed squared rubble with painted stone dressings and a stone slate roof. It has a central staircase plan and is two storeys high with two bays, plus an additional gabled bay on the left that was added in the mid-19th century.
The former central entrance features a plain surround with a four-panel door, of which the upper two panels are glazed. There are two large ground floor windows that are now boarded up but are reputed to have been three-light mullioned and transomed windows. The two upper floor windows, which were originally two-light chamfered mullioned windows, are now single lights with missing mullions and 20th-century casements. The mid-19th century window in the left-hand bay has sashes with glazing bars.
The gable end has ridge stacks, and the right-hand return wall includes three rows of throughs and a round window. The rear of the building features three rows of throughs, with former two-light chamfered mullioned windows on both the ground and upper floors now converted to single lights with missing mullions, along with a two-light chamfered mullioned stair window between the floors; all three windows have slate hoods and two-pane casements.
Inside, the hall is reputed to contain a moulded doorhead and an early 18th-century dog-leg staircase with a closed string, turned balusters, and a moulded handrail.
Local climate
Beecroft Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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