Remains of Former Kirby Hall, and Attached Gateway, Walls and Carriage Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1966. A 18th century Remains of a country house.
Remains of Former Kirby Hall, and Attached Gateway, Walls and Carriage Gate Piers
- WRENN ID
- night-pewter-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1966
- Type
- Remains of a country house
- Period
- 18th century
- Address
- Remains of Former Kirby Hall, and Attached Gateway, Walls and Carriage Gate Piers, Kirby Hall Estate
- OS grid reference
- SE 457 609
- Coordinates
- 54.04223, -1.30265
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The remains of the former Kirby Hall, along with an attached gateway, walls, and carriage gate piers, date from 1747 to around 1755. They were designed by Lord Burlington and Roger Morris for Stephen Thompson. The structure is built from limestone ashlar. The house wall features an angled and quadrant wall on the left side. It has a 7-bay rusticated basement with a former portico opening in the center, flanked by square window openings beneath flat arches made of voussoirs. To the left, there is a yard gate set in a rusticated, segment-arched opening in the wall, which has a moulded cornice and ball finials. The round-headed plank door has pegged-on panelling. The forecourt walls stand approximately 2.25 meters high on a plain plinth, with square-section pilaster piers and ball finials, and they ramp up to the yard gateway. An angled section to the left of the yard gate is balustraded, resting on a moulded plinth with moulded coping. The carriage gate piers are banded rusticated, square-section, and approximately 4.5 meters high, standing on moulded bases with moulded cornices, stepped-up caps, and pineapple finials. The Hall was demolished in the early 1920s and is illustrated in Vitruvius Brittanicus, Volume V, plates 70 and 71.
Local climate
Remains of Former Kirby Hall, and Attached Gateway, Walls and Carriage Gate Piers receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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