Hellifield Station Main Passenger Building is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1977. A Victorian Train station. 4 related planning applications.
Hellifield Station Main Passenger Building
- WRENN ID
- open-floor-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1977
- Type
- Train station
- Address
- Hellifield Station Main Passenger Building, Station Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 851 572
- Coordinates
- 54.01094, -2.22794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hellifield Station's main passenger building was constructed around 1880 for the Midland Railway. It is made of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The station is located on an island platform, which is accessed via an underground passage from the station yard. The building has two storeys and consists of 18 bays. Each side has five entrances with moulded surrounds and fluted consoles above the lintels of the two northernmost passageways. The tall windows have deeply splayed cills and moulded panels, although all windows and most entrances are currently boarded up.
On the upper floor, there are five bays with four dormers on the east side and three on the west, both featuring bargeboards. The building has six ridge stacks. There are 20th-century plank extensions to the north and south. The structure is complemented by an extensive cast iron and glazed canopy, which has 12 bays on the east side and 11 bays on the west. The canopy is supported by elaborate columns with high pedestals, flutes, pronounced entasis, and eclectic capitals. Cast iron brackets and ornamental spandrels display the Midland Wyvern symbol, the Midland Railway logo, and intricate foliage designs.
The interior is not accessible to the public. A late 19th-century cast iron weighbridge, embossed with "MR" and "RD KITCHIN WARRINGTON," is located on the platform at the south end of the station buildings. There are also cast iron railings leading up to the platform and white ceramic tiles in the underground passage, along with wrought iron entrance gates.
Local climate
Hellifield Station Main Passenger Building sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 — 4 applications
- 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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