Brewhouse and Laundry Block on East Side of North Courtyard of Ripley Castle is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1987. Brewhouse and laundry block.
Brewhouse and Laundry Block on East Side of North Courtyard of Ripley Castle
- WRENN ID
- eternal-corridor-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1987
- Type
- Brewhouse and laundry block
- OS grid reference
- SE 282 606
- Coordinates
- 54.04073, -1.56985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The brewhouse and laundry block, located on the east side of the north courtyard of Ripley Castle, is likely from the late 18th century and was built for Sir John Ingilby. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building is two stories tall with three bays, flanked by lower single-storey wings that each have two bays. Throughout the structure, there are plain flush sills and lintels.
The central laundry block has double board doors in the middle, flanked by 16-pane sash windows, with three 4-pane fixed windows on the first floor. The left wing features a central board door with 2-light casement windows on either side, while the right wing has a similar arrangement but with 16-pane sashes. The central block is topped with a pyramid roof that has a louvred ventilator and banded stacks on either side, while the side wings have hipped roofs.
Inside, the central block is open to the roof and contains a large brick-built boiler and coppers against the left-hand wall, along with a stone bench or shelf supported by bricks on the right-hand wall.
Local climate
Brewhouse and Laundry Block on East Side of North Courtyard of Ripley Castle receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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