Craven Bank is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. Schoolhouse.

Craven Bank

WRENN ID
leaning-cellar-claret
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
Schoolhouse
Address
Craven Bank, Craven Bank Lane, Giggleswick
OS grid reference
SD 808 641
Coordinates
54.07297, -2.29356
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Craven Bank is a schoolhouse built around 1804 and 1817. It features a rendered exterior with stone dressings and a slate roof. The building has a central staircase plan and was originally two storeys with three bays. The central entrance is framed by a Tuscan pilaster surround and an open pediment, leading to a six-panel door with the top two panels glazed and a round-headed fanlight above. The ground floor has two windows and the upper floor has three, all with plain surrounds and sash windows: the ground floor windows have 15 panes each, while the upper floor windows have 12 panes each. The building also has projecting quoins and a mid-20th century dormer. At the left side, there is a recessed extension from around 1817, which is two storeys and one bay, featuring 15-pane sashes on the ground floor and 12-pane sashes on the upper floor. Gable end ridge stacks complete the structure.

Local climate

Craven Bank 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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