Whitwell Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1976. Country house.

Whitwell Hall

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 November 1976
Type
Country house
Address
Whitwell Hall, Main Street, Whitwell-On-The-Hill
OS grid reference
SE 719 658
Coordinates
54.08386, -0.90152
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Whitwell Hall is a country house built in 1835 by Pritchard and Watson. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a Westmorland slate roof. The house is designed in the Tudor style and consists of two storeys and an attic, with a central hall that has radiating rooms and a main staircase leading to a gallery. The façade has three bays arranged in a 1:3:1 pattern, separated by pilaster buttresses.

At the center, there is a single-storey embattled canted bay that includes three-light cusped straight-headed windows. The outer bays feature four-light traceried four-centred windows. A first-floor band carries cusped square-headed windows, with two lights in the central bay and three lights in the outer bays. The building is topped with an embattled parapet on decorative corbels, which has a central gable containing a two-light cusped window surmounted by a finial. There are also octagonal angle turrets and a hipped roof with decorative octagonal stacks. The entrance is located on the right return front, beneath a porte-cochere with Tudor arches, which is topped by an openwork parapet featuring a quatrefoil motif.

Local climate

Whitwell Hall receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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