The Rock is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1969. A C18 Folly.
The Rock
- WRENN ID
- endless-crypt-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1969
- Type
- Folly
- Address
- The Rock, Gilling with Hartforth and Sedbury
- OS grid reference
- NZ 200 046
- Coordinates
- 54.4365, -1.69316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rock is a folly built in 1795 by John Foss of Richmond for the D'Arcy Hutton family. It is constructed from coursed rubble sandstone and features a two-storey circular tower that is enclosed by an octagonal single-storey base. The base, which contained the staircase, is now partly collapsed. Originally, each side of the base had a blind pointed-arched window with rusticated voussoirs and a battlemented parapet, all of which are now missing. The tower has four pointed-arched openings with matching voussoirs, and there is a similar stone treatment just below the eaves band, along with a water-spout on the south-west side. The side walls, which are also partly collapsed, had pointed-arched openings, with one surviving in the north wall, and a battlemented parapet that is now gone. Inside, the upper room features ashlar and a saucer dome, with "RDH 1797" inscribed on the lintel above the north-east window.
Local climate
The Rock receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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