Bankwell is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Bankwell
- WRENN ID
- final-jamb-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bankwell, Bankwell Road, Giggleswick, BD24 0AP
- OS grid reference
- SD 812 639
- Coordinates
- 54.071, -2.28757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
House, dating from the 18th century with origins around 1830 and later 19th-century alterations. Constructed of dressed stone with a hipped slate roof, the house follows a double pile plan and has a gable-end entry. It is two storeys high and originally three bays wide. The entrance porch features Tuscan pilasters and an entablature, framing a recessed entrance with a six-panel door, the upper two panels glazed, and a rectangular glazed fanlight above. The right-hand ground floor and two upper floor windows have projecting sills and 16-pane sashes. The left-hand gable has projecting eaves, and gable-end stacks are present. To the right is a later 19th-century bay that formerly connected Bankwell to the Parish Room. The garden front, on the left-hand return, is two storeys high and four bays wide, with the two central bays recessed, featuring sashes, and an upper floor sill band. The interior includes an 18th-century cellar in the eastern (right-hand) part of the house. An early 19th-century dog-leg staircase has an open string, turned balusters, and a ramped handrail. The eastern range retains 18th-century chamfered King post roof trusses with V struts, while the western range has an 1830s King post roof constructed of machine-sawn timber with V struts.
Local climate
Bankwell sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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 — 11 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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