Low Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1989. House.
Low Hall
- WRENN ID
- old-gutter-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Low Hall, Kettlewell with Starbotton, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 969 722
- Coordinates
- 54.14649, -2.04883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Hall is a house dated 1849, with a street frontage dating from the early to mid-18th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has three bays, with quoins on the corners.
The south facade, which faces the rear, has a central half-glazed four-panel door set in a pilastered doorcase, topped with a plain lintel and cornice. Above the door is a stone plaque with the date "T. 1849.I" in relief. Flanking the door are sash windows with glazing bars, which have plain stone surrounds and sills supported by moulded brackets. The facade also features paired stone gutter brackets, shaped kneelers, gable coping, and corniced stacks on the left gable and between the second and third bays, as well as a banded stack on the right gable.
The street facade has patchy rendering and includes a tall central stair window with six fixed panes above a transom, and a sash window with glazing bars below. There are similar sash windows with glazing bars on the first floor to the left and right, all set within architraves. A 20th-century window in a similar architrave is located on the ground floor to the left. On the right side of the ground floor, there are two-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows. The architrave of the first-floor right-hand window extends around to the left return of the house, indicating a window that was set around the corner. The architraves show remnants of transoms. The eaves are raised and have similar detailing to the south front, with an ashlar corniced stack at the eaves to the left of center.
On the right return, there is a doorway to the right of center and a blocked round-headed window on the ground floor to the left.
Inside, the side entrance leads into a lobby that opens into the north room, which was formerly a kitchen. This room features a large fireplace with a hollow moulded cornice and a chamfered cross beam, as well as the site of a well. The next room is a former dairy with stone shelves, although these were not seen during the resurvey. The south rooms on the ground floor have high ceilings typical of their mid-19th century date, and there is a central entrance hall with a plain staircase.
Local climate
Low Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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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