Stables and Barn Approximately 50 Metres South West of Cayton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1966. A Georgian Stable and barn.

Stables and Barn Approximately 50 Metres South West of Cayton Hall

WRENN ID
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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
Stable and barn
Period
Georgian
OS grid reference
SE 298 629
Coordinates
54.06205, -1.54489
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stables and barn, located approximately 50 metres southwest of Cayton Hall, were built in the 18th century. The stable block dates to 1726, the barn to 1750, and a linking range was added in the late 18th century. They were originally built for William Mitchell and John Messenger respectively. The buildings are constructed primarily of coursed squared gritstone and cobble, with graduated stone slate roofs.

The 1726 stable block is a two-storey, two-bay structure, extended to the right by two bays and to the left by five bays. Magnesian limestone quoins mark the left side of the 1726 block; gritstone quoins are found to the far right and on the barn. A board door is centrally positioned between bays 6 and 7, framed by long and short jambstones, with a chamfered panel and arched recess above bearing the inscription "Wm. Mitchell / 1726". Ground floor windows are square with plain stone surrounds and 8-pane side-siding sashes; first-floor windows are board doors. The quoins rise to just below eaves level on the left but only extend five courses high on the right; the two right-hand bays replicate the facade and were likely added shortly after work began. Bays 1-5 have evenly spaced board doors in plain surrounds. A taller round-arched doorway is located far right, featuring a raised keystone. A boarded square opening is found far left, while bays 2-3 contain three 8-pane windows. The barn, projecting at a right angle to the left, features a central segmental arch with quoined jambs and the date 1750 incised on the two top stones. Two tiers of slit vents are present on the left-hand side, the right bay being obscured by the attached stable ranges.

The stable block’s interior, on the first floor within bays 2-5, comprises a long room with cross-braced roof trusses made of reused timbers, accessed from a stone stair opening from the round-arched doorway. The south wall has doorways to the left and right, with a plastered partition wall between them. A doorway on the left leads to an adjoining room served by an end stack. This long room is believed to have been a chapel, and the inner room a vestry, with remnant painted drapery (a baldechon) on the south wall, similar to that found in Cayton Hall.

Local climate

Stables and Barn Approximately 50 Metres South West of Cayton Hall 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 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% 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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