Wall Bounding Footpath on South Side, Running from Gate Piers Just West of the Houses in Harrogate Road, As Far As Skell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1984. A Probably early C19 Wall. 1 related planning application.
Wall Bounding Footpath on South Side, Running from Gate Piers Just West of the Houses in Harrogate Road, As Far As Skell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-cupola-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1984
- Type
- Wall
- Address
- Wall Bounding Footpath on South Side, Running from Gate Piers Just West of the Houses in Harrogate Road, As Far As Skell Cottage, Borrage Green Lane, Ripon, HG4 2JH
- OS grid reference
- SE 308 708
- Coordinates
- 54.13225, -1.52909
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall bounding the footpath on the south side, which runs from the gate piers just west of the houses on Harrogate Road to Skell Cottage, is likely from the early 19th century. It is constructed of pebbles and features two bands of hammer-dressed limestone courses, along with hammer-dressed limestone coping. The wall has hammer-dressed limestone quoins and stands approximately 8 feet high, dropping to 4 feet high just west of Ivy House.
Local climate
Wall Bounding Footpath on South Side, Running from Gate Piers Just West of the Houses in Harrogate Road, As Far As Skell Cottage 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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