Worsley Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1987. Hotel.
Worsley Arms Hotel
- WRENN ID
- long-ashlar-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1987
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Worsley Arms Hotel, High Street, Hovingham
- OS grid reference
- SE 667 755
- Coordinates
- 54.17117, -0.97869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Worsley Arms Hotel is a hotel built in 1840 by Audaer. It features limestone ashlar with rock-faced stone on the ground floor of the right wing and a Welsh slate roof. The building has two front ranges with a cross wing at the rear.
The left wing is two storeys high with five first-floor windows. It has a plinth and a six-panel double-leaf door, which is flanked by narrow lights and topped with an elliptical fanlight in a rusticated door frame. The door is accompanied by sash windows with glazing bars set in keyed stone architraves. The first floor also has sash windows with glazing bars in keyed stone architraves, along with an eaves band and ridge stacks.
The right wing is three storeys tall with three bays. It features a plinth and sash windows with glazing bars that have keystones but no lintels above. There is a first-floor band and sash windows with glazing bars in eared and keyed stone surrounds on the first floor. The second floor includes a band and six-pane sashes in eared and keyed stone surrounds, along with coved eaves and stacks at the left end and ridge.
Local climate
Worsley Arms Hotel receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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