Knaresborough Station is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. Station. 7 related planning applications.
Knaresborough Station
- WRENN ID
- spare-hammer-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- Station
- Address
- Knaresborough Station, HG5 9AA
- OS grid reference
- SE 348 571
- Coordinates
- 54.00912, -1.47037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knaresborough Station is a Grade II listed building that includes railings at the front, a main ticket office and waiting-room range, and platform canopies on both the north and south sides of the track. The station was built in 1865 and rebuilt in 1890. It features gritstone and cast-iron railings, cream brick in Flemish bond for the buildings, cast-iron columns, and roofs made of grey slate and glazed materials. The railings along the Station Road approach extend for approximately 100 meters, standing about 2 meters high and adjusting to the slope of the ground. They consist of gritstone walling with bars topped by foliated spear-head finials and standards with gadrooned ball and cushion finials.
The station buildings are single-storey and approximately 10 bays long. The main facade on the north side has a wide entrance bay to the right of center, featuring original wooden gates. To the left of the entrance are 2-light segmental-headed windows with brick arches and stone sills. To the right of the entrance, there are 3 sash windows and a canted bay window that projects from the right return. The building has deep eaves with a valance, four tall brick stacks with paired flues and a dentilled cornice, and four ornate ventilation flues to the left of the entrance, likely made of lead-covered wood, adorned with friezes, cornices, and ball finials. The rear facade, facing the platform, has original half-glazed panelled doors and 4-pane sash windows similar to the front.
The platform canopies are supported by columns, with 12 on the north platform and 8 on the south platform. These columns have moulded bases, Egyptian-style stiff-leaf capitals, curved braces supporting cross-beams, and circular motifs in the spandrels. Inside, above the ticket office windows, there are glazed tiles that read "IN" and "OUT."
Local climate
Knaresborough Station 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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- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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