Small Building Approximately 30 Metres West of Stables at Plompton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1966. Stable.

Small Building Approximately 30 Metres West of Stables at Plompton Hall

WRENN ID
grim-joist-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1966
Type
Stable
OS grid reference
SE 356 540
Coordinates
53.98118, -1.4577
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This small building, now a stable, is located approximately 30 metres west of the stables at Plompton Hall. It was constructed around 1757, likely by the architect John Carr for Daniel Lascelles. The building is made of ashlar stone and has a stone slate roof. It is square in plan, measuring about 4.5 metres across.

On the south face, there is a low plinth and a central doorway with a plain lintel. Above the doorway, there is a projecting band, a moulded cornice, and a dentilled, moulded eaves cornice topped with a low parapet. The roof is pyramidal with a central stack or flue. The rear (north face) features an arched recess that contains a square window, although the frame is not original. Both left and right returns have arched recesses with moulded archivolts above cornice level.

Inside, the building is lined with red brick, cement-washed on the lower two metres, and has a fine groined vault that springs from the external cornice level. There is an inserted brick oven and an iron bowl for heating mash in the north-west corner, along with an inserted beam approximately 3 metres above the floor. Although the building has been referred to as a pigeon house or granary, there is no evidence to support these uses, as there are no nesting boxes against the existing brick walls, and the central chimney or ventilator could not have served as an entrance for birds. In the late 19th or early 20th century, the building was used for butchering, but its original purpose remains unknown.

Local climate

Small Building Approximately 30 Metres West of Stables at Plompton Hall receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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