Rock Castle is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1987. Farmhouse.
Rock Castle
- WRENN ID
- tall-rotunda-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rock Castle, Hargill, Gilling with Hartforth and Sedbury
- OS grid reference
- NZ 185 060
- Coordinates
- 54.44972, -1.71597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock Castle is a farmhouse, now divided into two, built around 1793, likely by John Foss of Richmond. It features coursed sandstone and an artificial stone slate roof, with a U-shaped plan and two storeys, arranged in a 1:2:1 bay configuration. The building has quoins at the ends and on the central two bays, which project slightly. To the right of the first bay, there is a door with two vertical panels and an overlight above. The sash windows have glazing bars, projecting sills, and deep lintels. The central bays are under a gable that includes a blind lunette window, painted to resemble radial glazing bars, set in an ashlar surround. The ends and central gable have shaped kneelers and ashlar coping. There are stacks at the ends and a corniced stack on the ridge of the central gable. Added ranges to the left and rear right are not of special interest. A house to the right has an entry in the right return of its extension. The date of construction is noted in a manuscript account of Gilling recorded by John Shaw in 1867.
Local climate
Rock Castle 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 lower than that of 69% 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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