Village Institute is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1952. Chapel, institute.
Village Institute
- WRENN ID
- rough-foundation-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1952
- Type
- Chapel, institute
- Address
- Village Institute, East End, Hawes, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 871 893
- Coordinates
- 54.29922, -2.19834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Institute, originally built as a Sandemanian chapel around 1755, is located in Gayle. Constructed from rubble with a stone slate roof, it is a single-storey building featuring three windows. There is a board door to the right and 20th-century casement windows, along with six-pane windows on the rear elevation. The chapel was established by the Batty brothers and James Allen of Gayle as an Inghamite chapel, but they soon became followers of Robert Sandeman, who separated from the Scottish Church. Adjacent to the chapel is a burial ground that contains well-lettered tombstones from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Local climate
Village Institute sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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