Mother Shipton Inn is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1968. Inn. 4 related planning applications.
Mother Shipton Inn
- WRENN ID
- broken-render-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1968
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Mother Shipton Inn, Low Bridge, Knaresborough, HG5 8HZ
- OS grid reference
- SE 349 564
- Coordinates
- 54.00295, -1.46789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mother Shipton Inn is a 17th-century inn that has undergone some alterations in the 19th century. It is constructed of stone and features a stone slate roof. The building consists of a two-storey, two-bay main range, with a two-storey, one-bay addition on the left and a further one-storey block with attics to the far left.
The main range has a 20th-century glazed door located in an added gabled porch, with two 20th-century casement windows on each floor. It also features a first-floor band, a shaped kneeler, and gable coping, along with a large central ridge stack. The one-bay extension has similar windows but a lower roof pitch and a left gable stack. The two-bay extension, which was likely originally a stable with a hay loft above, includes two 20th-century windows, lower eaves, and ridge; there are steps to the loft space with a boarded door on the left return.
The main range is associated with the nearby cave and dropping well along the river bank to the west, and the building served as a gatehouse to the Long Walk for a period of time.
Local climate
Mother Shipton Inn 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 — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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