The Wool Room is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1986. Wool room.
The Wool Room
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-clay-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 1986
- Type
- Wool room
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ASKRIGG LODGE YARD SD 99 SW 19/6 The Wool Room GV II Wool Room, now partly used as a garage. Late C18 - early C19. Rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 first-floor windows to west elevation. On ground floor, doorway to left, and 12-pane window. 2 small openings on first floor. North elevation consists of a long range with external steps up to the first floor. Large C20 openings on ground floor. Fleeces were brought to the Wool Room from the surrounding farms for excise purposes. Access to it was probably through Robinson's Gateways (qv). It is a rare survival of a building representing the historically important Wensleydale woollen and knitting industries. Included for group value. Hartley M and Ingilby J, Yorkshire Village, (1979), p 121.
Listing NGR: SD9487291100
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