Petty Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. House. 2 related planning applications.
Petty Hall
- WRENN ID
- rooted-rubble-dale
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Petty Hall, Front Street, Orton, Westmorland and Furness, CA10 3SE
- OS grid reference
- NY 622 081
- Coordinates
- 54.46702, -2.58428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Petty Hall is a large house dating from 1604, with the initials G.B. and M.B. (for Birkbeck) inscribed on the door lintel. Inside, there is a reset stone panel that has the date 1689 along with the initials C. and M.P. and a pseudo-heraldic device. The building has undergone later alterations and is constructed from coursed, squared rubble with quoins. It features a 45-degree graduated slate roof with stone coping on the south gable and has a wing at the rear.
The house is two storeys high and has six bays. There are two plank doors, both featuring false 4-centred heads. The right-hand door serves as the main entrance and has a dated lintel and architrave. To the right of this door are two 3-light windows, and to the left is one 3-light window. To the left of the second door, there is another 3-light window. The first floor has a mix of 2- and 3-light windows. All windows are square-leaded casements set in stone-mullioned, chamfered surrounds with hoodmoulds that have decorative label-stops. The building also has stone mid and end chimneys.
Inside, Petty Hall retains many original features, including large segmentally-arched fireplaces, massive chamfered beams, doors, partitions, and decorative plaster cornices.
Local climate
Petty Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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