Belle Isle, Wall, Gate-Piers and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. A C19 House. 2 related planning applications.

Belle Isle, Wall, Gate-Piers and Railings

WRENN ID
pitched-thatch-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 April 1986
Type
House
Address
Belle Isle, Wall, Gate-Piers and Railings, Isles, Melbecks, North Yorkshire, DL11 6NF
OS grid reference
SD 977 976
Coordinates
54.37449, -2.03545
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Belle Isle is a building that combines a house and a cottage under one roof, now functioning as a house and an outbuilding. It dates from the early 19th century and is constructed of coursed sandstone with a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys.

The house features three first-floor windows with ashlar surrounds. The central entrance has a four-panel door set within a classical doorcase, which includes plinths and a simple entablature. The name 'BELLE-ISLE' is painted on the frieze above the door. There is an earlier keystone resting on the cornice, inscribed with 'J7 07' G FM. A 20th-century glazed porch has been added, and there is a 20th-century canted bay window to the left of the door, while the other windows are sashes. The house has end stacks.

The cottage, located on the right, has one first-floor window. On the ground floor, it features a boarded door, a fixed-light window with 20 panes, and a low fire window with a stone surround. The first floor has a four-pane sash window in an ashlar surround, and there is a shaped kneeler to the right.

In front of the building, there is a small garden enclosed by a rubble wall with ashlar coping. The gate-piers to the house are monolithic ashlar obelisks, while the gate-piers to the cottage are shorter obelisks set on the wall. Similar obelisks are placed at intervals along the railings, which are short cast-iron with finial tops on the bars.

Local climate

Belle Isle, Wall, Gate-Piers and Railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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