Battle Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. House. 3 related planning applications.

Battle Hill

WRENN ID
moated-oriel-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1958
Type
House
Address
Battle Hill, Main Street, Austwick, North Yorkshire, LA2 8BW
OS grid reference
SD 769 686
Coordinates
54.11295, -2.35453
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Battle Hill is a house dated 1673 with alterations from the 1920s. It is constructed of limewashed rubble with painted stone dressings and a stone slate roof. The building has a three-room plan and stands two storeys high with three bays. To the left of center, there is a projecting two-storey gabled entrance porch featuring a moulded surround and a decorated lintel that is inscribed with "I L" and has a hoodmould. The porch contains a late 17th-century studded plank door.

In the gable, there is a former two-light chamfered window with a missing mullion and casements. A small chamfered window is located in the right-hand return. To the left, there is a curved stair turret with a small single-light chamfered stair window, and three ground floor windows: a two-light chamfered mullioned window with fixed lights on the left, a single-light chamfered fire window to the right of the porch, and a 1920s three-light flat-faced mullioned window. The upper floor features two 1920s windows with casements. The building has gable-end and right-of-centre ridge stacks.

Inside, the fireplace in the right-hand room has a chamfered surround and a large basket-arched lintel. Most rooms have 17th-century studded plank doors. In the attic, there are two large stone corbels, likely intended to support a timber fire hood that is no longer present.

Local climate

Battle Hill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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