Oxton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1967. Country house.
Oxton Hall
- WRENN ID
- wild-stone-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1967
- Type
- Country house
- OS grid reference
- SE 496 434
- Coordinates
- 53.88492, -1.24575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oxton Hall is a small country house with an early 18th-century core, featuring extensive early 19th-century rebuilding and restorations from around 1985. The building is constructed of reddish-brown brick with a Tadcaster limestone facade and has a Welsh slate roof. It has a central-entrance hall plan and is two storeys tall with seven bays, including a three-bay central projection.
The facade includes a plinth and a central single-storey portico with four Greek Doric columns, a frieze adorned with triglyphs, a modillion cornice, and a low parapet. The entrance features part-glazed double doors with an overlight that has vertical glazing bars. On either side of the entrance are tall 8-pane sash windows with aprons, while the rest of the house has 12-pane sashes, with ground floor windows having aprons and first floor windows having sills. The first floor of the central projection has round-headed niches between the windows. There is a moulded cornice, a low parapet on the sides, and a pediment at the center. The hipped roof has ridge stacks.
On the garden front, there is an ironwork veranda at ground level supported by fluted columns and an ornamental frieze. The rear features several openings with flat arches made of red rubbed brick, which have ashlar keystones and red brick quoined jambs. A round-arched window with Gothick glazing is located on the stable yard side, along with a carriage arch that has later infill.
Inside, the house was extensively remodelled in the early 19th century and includes many notable features such as a cantilevered staircase with a wrought-iron lattice-work balustrade and a wreathed handrail. The service staircase has rod-on-vase balusters. The panelled entrance hall boasts ornate door-cases with friezes decorated with mythological beasts, and the cornice features ornamental guttae. The interior mainly consists of six-fielded-panel doors throughout, with further panelled rooms on either side that include marble fireplaces. Additional features include various fireplaces and ornate shutters.
Local climate
Oxton Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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