Garden House Approximately 100 Metres North-East of Draycott Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1966. Folly.

Garden House Approximately 100 Metres North-East of Draycott Hall

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 December 1966
Type
Folly
OS grid reference
SE 046 990
Coordinates
54.38693, -1.92946
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Garden House, located approximately 100 metres north-east of Draycott Hall, is a folly in the garden of Draycott Hall, dating from the late 18th century, with a 20th-century addition. The structure is built of coursed rubble and consists of a single room designed in the style of a Medieval fortification, featuring a large 20th-century addition at the rear. The front has a 20th-century double door set beneath a keyed stone arch, replacing a former window, and is flanked by two slit windows with stone surrounds. There is a decorative band and a row of openings for pigeons, topped with an embattled parapet.

Local climate

Garden House Approximately 100 Metres North-East of Draycott Hall receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% 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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