Fort Montague with Attached Wall to West is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
Fort Montague with Attached Wall to West
- WRENN ID
- fading-spire-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fort Montague with Attached Wall to West, HG5 8EE
- OS grid reference
- SE 351 564
- Coordinates
- 54.0032, -1.46568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fort Montague, with an attached wall to the west, is a house built between 1770 and 1786 by Thomas Hill and his son. It is rock-cut with rubble stone, partly rendered, and has a Westmorland slate roof. The building has four storeys and a single room in plan, cut into the face of the cliff. On the east side, there is a segmental arched entrance to the top storey, located on the right, which features a six-panel door in a plain frame. There are no other openings on this side. The south face has one window on each floor, with side-sliding sashes that have glazing bars on the lower three floors and a four-pane sash on the top floor. The building is topped with an embattled parapet, and the wall to the left is also embattled. Thomas Hill, a weaver, established a tenement on the cliff face, which was land owned by Thomas Slingsby. Over 16 years, he terraced the cliff and constructed the house, with completion by his son. This building is one of several rock-cut dwellings in Knaresborough from the 18th and 19th centuries and is also known as The House in the Rock.
Local climate
Fort Montague with Attached Wall to West 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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