Norton Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1969. Tower.
Norton Tower
- WRENN ID
- tattered-hearth-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1969
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Norton Tower, B6265, Rylstone, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 975 570
- Coordinates
- 54.00932, -2.03824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Norton Tower is a Grade II listed structure, likely built in the 16th century for Richard Norton. It is made of coursed gritstone and has a square shape, measuring approximately 10 metres by 15 metres. The corners of the tower rise to about 3 metres, although the walls have been slighted. The original entrance was probably located on the south side, and there are remnants of a fireplace and a stone newel stair on the east side, but no windows remain. The tower is situated among extensive earthworks and is part of a significant archaeological site that includes rabbit warrens, known as pillow mounds, and possibly prehistoric field clearance cairns to the south. This building served as a hunting lodge for the Nortons of Rylstone and Norton Conyers and was slighted following the family's involvement in the Rising of the North in 1569.
Local climate
Norton Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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