Weir, Stone Basin and Footbridge at Lake Outlet, Ripley Castle is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1966. Weir, basin, footbridge.
Weir, Stone Basin and Footbridge at Lake Outlet, Ripley Castle
- WRENN ID
- vast-wattle-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1966
- Type
- Weir, basin, footbridge
- OS grid reference
- SE 281 604
- Coordinates
- 54.03922, -1.57117
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The weir, stone basin, and footbridge at the lake outlet of Ripley Castle were constructed between 1843 and 1844 for Sir William Amcott Ingilby. The weir features a horse-shoe shape and creates a cascade with six tiers, while the stone-lined basin is approximately 3 metres deep and made of large gritstone blocks. The basin's walls are built up to support the footbridge, which has a single shallow span with an iron walkway held up by a single rib. Designed in Gothick style, the footbridge includes two pairs of solid standards adorned with trefoiled panels and rounded pyramidal caps. The railings consist of two tiers of trefoil arches, a band of cinquefoil roundels at the base, and a moulded handrail that slopes down to ground level at both ends. The standards bear the cast inscription: "JOSEPH BUTLER / & CO / OLD FOUNDRY / STAININGLEY." Sir William Amcott Ingilby created the Ripley lake as part of the park's landscaping, following earlier designs by Capability Brown.
Local climate
Weir, Stone Basin and Footbridge at Lake Outlet, Ripley Castle 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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