Watergate is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1967. House.
Watergate
- WRENN ID
- open-newel-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Watergate, Watergate Road, Bishop Thornton, Shaw Mills and Warsill
- OS grid reference
- SE 264 653
- Coordinates
- 54.08309, -1.59689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Watergate is a house built in 1665, with extensive rebuilding completed in 1880. It is constructed from coursed gritstone rubble and features a Westmorland slate roof. The building has two storeys and three bays, consisting of a two-bay range on the left with a projecting two-storey porch, and a large projecting gabled wing on the right. The corners of the building are marked by quoins.
There are three steps leading up to the porch entrance, which has a chamfered surround and an ornate lintel with a scalloped lower edge, featuring a panel with '16 SS 65' in relief. Above the porch, there is a hood-mould over a stepped three-light double-chamfered mullioned window, along with a small rectangular opening in the gable.
On the left side, there is a four-light double-chamfered mullioned window with a hood-mould, and a three-light mullioned window above it. To the right of the porch, there is a single-light double-chamfered window and a tall two-light mullioned window above.
The right gabled wing has a four-light double-chamfered mullioned window on both the ground and first floors, and a small round-arched window in the gable, which is set above a date stone inscribed with '1880' and an anchor in relief. The building also features kneelers, gable coping, and chimney stacks located at the left end and the ridge of the wing.
Local climate
Watergate 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 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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