Sneaton Castle ( St Hildas Priory) is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1954. Castle, priory. 2 related planning applications.
Sneaton Castle ( St Hildas Priory)
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-lead-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1954
- Type
- Castle, priory
- Address
- Sneaton Castle ( St Hildas Priory), Guisborough Road, Whitby, YO21 3QN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 880 106
- Coordinates
- 54.48337, -0.64244
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sneaton Castle, also known as St Hilda's Priory, is a building likely constructed around 1830. It features two storeys and a basement, built of ashlar stone. The central section is crenellated and has five sash windows, flanked by taller, two-storey projecting crenellated towers at each end of the front elevation. The centre includes an enclosed crenellated porch with a four-centred doorway and steps leading up, bordered by iron railings. At the top, the crenellated parapet is stepped up over a coved stone shield of arms. Each tower has one sash window per storey, adorned with dripmoulds and croisee loops above, and is topped with machicolated battlements and small battlemented bartisans. The building has flat roofs throughout.
Local climate
Sneaton Castle ( St Hildas Priory) receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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