Walshford Lodge to Ribston Hall with Gatepiers and Linking Walls is a Grade II* listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1966. Lodge.
Walshford Lodge to Ribston Hall with Gatepiers and Linking Walls
- WRENN ID
- half-spandrel-rain
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1966
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Walshford Lodge to Ribston Hall with Gatepiers and Linking Walls, Great Ribston with Walshford
- OS grid reference
- SE 412 532
- Coordinates
- 53.97383, -1.37238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walshford Lodge to Ribston Hall, with gate-piers and linking walls, is a pair of lodges dating from the mid to late 18th century, possibly designed by John Carr, with a 20th-century addition. The structure is built of ashlar stone and features wrought-iron gates and Westmorland slate roofs. The two small lodge houses are connected by a curving wall to the outer pair of gate-piers. Low railings and a single-leaf gate connect the outer gate-piers to the inner ones, which support the inner pair of gates.
The lodges are single-storey, with one lodge having one bay on the left and the other having two bays on the right. The entrances are located at the rear. Round-headed sash windows with glazing bars are set in round-arched recesses, and the building has banded rustication below an impost band that runs around it. Paterae are positioned beside the heads of the windows, which are topped with dentilled triangular pediments and ashlar coping. Each lodge features cylindrical stacks at the ridge centres, and pillars flank the gable ends, supporting a globe with a projecting fluted band.
The curved linking walls are approximately 2 metres high and have flat copings. The outer pair of gate-piers, about 3 metres high, support forward-facing sphinxes. The inner pair of gate-piers, approximately 4 metres high, feature an entablature with a rosette motif and a triangular pediment topped with inward-facing lions resting a paw on a globe. Both sets of piers exhibit banded rustication. The outer gates are single gates with attached railings, approximately 1.2 metres high, featuring arrow-headed bars and dog-bars, with pendants beneath the top and bottom rails. The main gates have elaborately scrolled lock-bars. The lodge on the right has a 20th-century extension at the rear.
Local climate
Walshford Lodge to Ribston Hall with Gatepiers and Linking Walls receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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