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
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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