Old Hearse House with Railings and Gate Pier is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1985. Hearse house, garage.
Old Hearse House with Railings and Gate Pier
- WRENN ID
- final-tallow-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1985
- Type
- Hearse house, garage
- Address
- Old Hearse House with Railings and Gate Pier, the Parsonage, Knaresborough
- OS grid reference
- SE 347 572
- Coordinates
- 54.00969, -1.47101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Hearse House, now used as a garage, is located on the north side of The Parsonage in Knaresborough. This structure dates from the late 18th century to early 19th century. It is built of coursed squared limestone and features a stone slate roof. The building is rectangular and single-storey, with 20th-century board double doors at the east end and a small Gothick-style window on the west side, which has no glazing. The roof is hipped.
Attached to the southeast corner is a wrought iron railing that is approximately 80 centimetres wide and 1.5 metres high. The railing has a stone sill and features rails with spearhead finials and a ramped top edge. It includes two panels adorned with scrolls and roundels at the lock rail and top rail height. Additionally, there is a gritstone gate pier that stands about 2 metres high, with a rounded top. This pier is split, possibly broken, approximately 50 centimetres above ground level. The pier and railing likely represent the remains of a gateway that once closed the end of Vicarage Lane from the churchyard.
Local climate
Old Hearse House with Railings and Gate Pier 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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