The Smuggler Cafe is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1954. Cafe. 1 related planning application.

The Smuggler Cafe

WRENN ID
rough-wicket-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 February 1954
Type
Cafe
Address
The Smuggler Cafe, 29, Baxtergate, Whitby, YO21 1BW
OS grid reference
NZ 897 109
Coordinates
54.48564, -0.61542
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Smuggler Cafe, located at 29 Baxter Gate, is a building that includes Nos 16 and 17 Loggerhead Yard. It is believed to date from 1401 and features two storeys and attics constructed in ashlar. The building has a steep pantile roof. On the first floor, there is one sliding sash window, and below it, a similar window with fielded shutters. To the left, there is a small window with shutters, and further left, a chamfered 4-centred archway leads to a yard behind. The roof has a blocked slope-top dormer window. Next to the yard entry, there is an old carved wooden male figure of uncertain provenance. This building was formerly known as the Old Ship Launch Inn.

Local climate

The Smuggler Cafe receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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