Old Grand Stand is a Grade II* listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. A Georgian Grandstand.
Old Grand Stand
- WRENN ID
- long-foundation-marsh
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1952
- Type
- Grandstand
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Old Grand Stand, Old Race Course, Richmond
- OS grid reference
- NZ 159 021
- Coordinates
- 54.41494, -1.7554
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Grand Stand is a fairly large rectangular building constructed in ashlar, dating from around 1775. It is located at the Old Race Course and is recognized as the earliest known grandstand for a race course. The ground floor, which faces the course, features five round-headed arches supported by a Tuscan arcade. Above this, there is a railed balcony that wraps around the building. The upper storey has large round-headed windows that echo the arches below. The flat roof is topped with a balustraded parapet. Inside, there is a spacious upper room that includes two fireplaces and an iron balustrade staircase. Notably, half of the colonnade has been lost, and some openings have been bricked up. The top storey of the Grand Stand was demolished in 1973. The building is part of a visual group that includes the Judge's Box, a smaller stand to the south, and Moor Cottage.
Local climate
Old Grand Stand receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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