Gallon Steps with 2 Lamp Posts and Walls, Linking Waterside and Kirkgate is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1985. Steps, lamp posts, walls.
Gallon Steps with 2 Lamp Posts and Walls, Linking Waterside and Kirkgate
- WRENN ID
- knotted-latch-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1985
- Type
- Steps, lamp posts, walls
- Address
- Gallon Steps with 2 Lamp Posts and Walls, Linking Waterside and Kirkgate, Knaresborough
- OS grid reference
- SE 348 570
- Coordinates
- 54.00832, -1.47031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gallon Steps, with two lamp posts and walls, are located in Knaresborough, linking Waterside and Kirkgate. These features date from the early 19th century and are constructed from brick, gritstone, cobbles, and cast iron.
The steps consist of seven flights, each approximately two meters wide, made of gritstone slabs resting on a stone and brick core. There are some 20th-century restorations, and cobble platforms are situated between the flights. The flanking walls are built of coursed gritstone with pointed coping, standing about one meter high on the outside. The inner wall is made of a mix of rubble and coursed gritstone.
The lamp posts are fluted columns with lanterns that were restored around 1980. The steps are believed to be named after Richard Gallon, who managed the Nidd pavilion in 1822. They were also known as Factory Steps, as an 1851 Ordnance Survey map indicates a linen factory built against the cliff face along their route. The lamp posts were likely first installed when the town began using gas lighting in 1824.
Local climate
Gallon Steps with 2 Lamp Posts and Walls, Linking Waterside and Kirkgate 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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