Yockenthwaite Hall with Attached Outbuilding and Garden Wall and Gate to Front is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Yockenthwaite Hall with Attached Outbuilding and Garden Wall and Gate to Front
- WRENN ID
- frozen-step-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SD 905 790
- Coordinates
- 54.2072, -2.14638
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yockenthwaite Hall is a large house dating from the mid to late 18th century, featuring attached outbuildings, a front garden wall, and a gate. The building is constructed of coursed squared gritstone with ashlar dressings and has a graduated stone slate roof. It stands two storeys high and has four bays, with a lower two-bay outbuilding attached to the left.
The house displays raised quoins and has a door in the third bay, which features six fielded panels set within an eared architrave, topped by a pulvinated frieze and a modillioned pediment. Throughout the building, there are casement windows in sawn stone surrounds, a moulded eaves cornice, gable copings, and banded stacks at each end and between the first and second bays. The outbuilding to the left has a board door with a plain shouldered surround, a window to the right on both the ground and first floors, and inserted garage doors on the left.
In front of the house, there is a low garden wall made of four to five courses of gritstone with a flat coping, although the railings have been replaced. The gate, likely from the 19th century, incorporates fine wrought ironwork that may be contemporary with the house, featuring C and S scrolls, leaves, and a flower motif.
Inside the house, there is a central narrow entrance hall leading to a large stair hall at the rear, which has two straight flights of stairs, a ramped handrail, and plain balusters. The staircase window has panelled reveals. The entrance and stair hall, as well as the main ground-floor room to the left, have ceiling cornices. The left room features an impressive Adam-style fireplace made of pine and plaster, with fluted pilasters, a plaque depicting a lion and vine scroll in relief, a black marble inner surround with a multicoloured stone fan, and a cast-iron basket grate flanked by panels decorated with classical masks, bucrania, and tripods with figures. The dado rail in this room is made of carved moulded wood.
The rear of the house includes a large kitchen on the left, which has a stone fireplace and a cast-iron range, and a larder or dairy to the right of the stair hall, equipped with recesses and meat hooks. The door surround in the house is very similar to that found at Buckden House.
Local climate
Yockenthwaite Hall with Attached Outbuilding and Garden Wall and Gate to Front sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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