The Ark is a Grade II* listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1952. A C15 Museum. 2 related planning applications.
The Ark
- WRENN ID
- scarred-eave-cedar
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1952
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- The Ark, Kirkgate, Tadcaster, LS24 9AQ
- OS grid reference
- SE 485 433
- Coordinates
- 53.88452, -1.26243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ark is a house that has been converted into a museum. It dates back to the 15th century, with later additions and alterations, including a rebuilding in the 1960s that used 15th-century timbers. There is also a 20th-century outshut to the left that is not of particular interest. The building is timber-framed with whitewashed nogging, underbuilt with magnesian limestone and narrow orange brick, and features a pantile roof. It has a hall and crosswing plan, is two storeys high, and has a two-bay hall and a single-bay gable-ended wing. The left side of the wing has an angle buttress. The entrance features a 20th-century six-panel door located in the centre of the wing, flanked by bow windows. The first floor projects slightly on corbels, and there is an oriel window with wooden mullions. The gable is supported by brackets featuring carved male and female figures. The wing includes a 20th-century full-height fixed light window and another 20th-century window on the first floor. The roof is swept.
Local climate
The Ark receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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