Helperby Hall Forecourt Railings to Street and Forecourt Wall to North is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1952. Manor house. 2 related planning applications.

Helperby Hall Forecourt Railings to Street and Forecourt Wall to North

WRENN ID
odd-pedestal-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 February 1952
Type
Manor house
Address
Helperby Hall Forecourt Railings to Street and Forecourt Wall to North, Main Street, Brafferton and Helperby, YO61 2QP
OS grid reference
SE 439 697
Coordinates
54.12185, -1.32834
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Helperby Hall is a manor house associated with the Coates family, originally built in 1709 and later altered in 1889. The part now known as the 'Old Hall', which is the southernmost range closest to the street, is an 18th-century structure that was modified in the late 19th century and extended to form a U-shape with six bays arranged in a 2:2:2 pattern to the south. The turreted entrance wing to the north was added in 1923, while the northernmost range features a Dutch gable and dates from 1914, built by the Helperby Estate. The Victorian and Edwardian work was carried out by Charles Sayer.

The 18th-century facade, altered in the late 19th century, is made of reddish-brown brick and includes a first-floor band, a stone modillion eaves cornice, and a hipped green slate roof with three pedimented dormers and a tall chimney. The house has two storeys and three bays, with 19th-century full-height canted bays on each side featuring sash windows with glazing bars. There are segmental stone steps leading to a central entrance, which has a 20th-century door and an oblong fanlight. The 19th-century doorcase is adorned with Ionic columns, a frieze, and a dentilled cornice. Above the entrance, there is a sash window with glazing bars set in a flush wood architrave with a gauged red brick flat arch.

Inside, there is a back staircase likely from the early 18th century, made of oak with a closed string, turned balusters, and square newels. The forecourt features wrought iron railings on a dwarf brick wall with stone coping, along with brick gatepiers topped with stone ball finials. The northern extension, constructed in red brick, includes a turreted entrance with a stone Doric portico, a frieze, and an attic beneath a segmental pediment. The northernmost wing has a square tower with a cupola and a Dutch gabled facade, along with casement windows featuring leaded lights. The courtyard is accessed through a pair of wrought iron gates and railings on a dwarf wall, with rusticated stone piers and ball finials. A curving brick wall in red brick with stepped and cogged coping slopes to the ridge, included for group value considerations.

Local climate

Helperby Hall Forecourt Railings to Street and Forecourt Wall to North receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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