Garden Building and Enclosure Wall Approximately 200 Metres West of Sawley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1987. Garden building.
Garden Building and Enclosure Wall Approximately 200 Metres West of Sawley Hall
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-plaster-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1987
- Type
- Garden building
- OS grid reference
- SE 254 668
- Coordinates
- 54.09661, -1.61217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden building and enclosure wall, located approximately 200 metres west of Sawley Hall, likely date from the early to mid-19th century. The structure is made of coursed squared gritstone with a grey slate roof. The garden building is circular, about 5 metres in diameter, and has walls that rise to 2 metres high. It features an entrance on the south side, flanked by narrow buttresses, with jambs and a lintel made of edge-tooled single blocks that curve to match the walls. There is a small opening in the wall opposite the entrance. The building has oversailing eaves and a conical roof. Inside, there is an earth floor supported by four principal rafters with halved collars, which hold up a chamfered king post.
The circular enclosure wall surrounding the garden building is approximately 2 metres high and has a diameter of 80 metres. The inner face of the wall is made of carefully tooled and coursed stone, while the outer face consists of coursed rubble. There is a wide gateway on the north side and a narrower pedestrian gate on the south, both featuring shallow triangular-arched lintels that are chamfered on both sides. The lintel of the north entrance is made of two pieces. The original purpose of the garden building is uncertain, but local tradition suggests it was used as a cockpit. Cock-fighting was made illegal in England in 1849, which may explain the building's secluded location, although cockpits are typically larger and deeper.
Local climate
Garden Building and Enclosure Wall Approximately 200 Metres West of Sawley Hall receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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