The Empress Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1975. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
The Empress Hotel
- WRENN ID
- brooding-newel-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1975
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Empress Hotel, Church Square, Harrogate, HG1 4SP
- OS grid reference
- SE 313 554
- Coordinates
- 53.9945, -1.52363
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Empress Hotel is a mid-18th century building, largely rebuilt around 1870. The facade was remodeled in a Georgian style and reduced in height by one storey in 1965. It is two storeys high, previously three, following the removal of the top storey. The building has ten windows and a modern slate roof. The construction is rusticated grit stone ashlar, featuring a pedimented central section with a blind lunette. It has recessed sash windows with glazing bars and a modern central entrance. A segmental arched carriageway is located at the west end. The building is listed for its group value and forms a group with numbers 7 and 9 (consecutive), numbers 9A, 11, 12, and the Empress Hotel.
Local climate
The Empress Hotel 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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