Pepper Arden is a historic building in South Cowton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.
The first house on the estate, "Pepper Hall", was built in or before the 17th century. A house was built on a new site in the early 18th century, and the old house was replaced by Home Farm. A rear wing was added to the house in about 1850, then a side block and bays were added in about 1870, perhaps to a design by William Eden Nesfield. The building was grade II listed in 1953.[1][2]
The house is built of red brick, with rendering, floor bands, a cornice, a balustraded parapet with ball finials, and a Welsh slate roof. The main block has three storeys and seven bays, it is flanked by canted two-storey bays, to the left is a wing with two storeys and two bays, and beyond that is a service wing. On the centre of the main block is a Doric porch with a frieze, a cornice with mutules, and a blocking course, and a doorway with a fanlight. Above it is a window with a segmental pediment, and the other windows are sashes with keystones, double in the lower two floors. The two front rooms have 19th-century plaster ceillings.[1][3]
A water tower was added in the mid or late 19th century, and it is also grade II listed. It is built of red brick, with yellow brick banding, and a pyramidal stone slate roof with a weathervane. It has a plinth and giant angle pilasters flanking round-arched recessed panels. The tower contains a segmental-arched doorway, above which is a stepped and cogged cornice, a stone band and a tripartite window, and a cornice with consoles.[3][4] In 2025, planning permission was granted to convert it into a house.[5]
The stable buildings were built in the late 19th century and are grade II listed. They are built of red brick, with banding in yellow brick, stone dressings and a Welsh slate roof. They surround a square courtyard and have a central range with two storeys and a clock tower. The entrance front has one storey and 15 bays, and contains a central carriage entrance with an architrave and a keystone. This is flanked by Tuscan columns on a plinth, with a frieze and a cornice, a keystone and paterae, above which is a pediment, The central range has two storeys and 15 bays, the middle bay projecting and containing a round-arched doorway, above which is an arched window with an open pediment. In the centre is a clock tower with a pyramidal roof and a square stone bellcote.[3][6]
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References
- ^ a b Historic England. "Pepper Arden, South Cowton (1188500)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
- ^ "Pepper Arden Hall". Yorkshire Gardens Trust. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
- ^ a b c Grenville, Jane; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2023) [1966]. Yorkshire: The North Riding. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-25903-2.
- ^ Historic England. "Water Tower approximately 30 metres to north-west of Pepper Arden Hall, South Cowton (1150213)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
- ^ Willis, Joe (25 September 2025). "Victorian water tower to be turned into house". Hambleton Today. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
- ^ Historic England. "Stables approximately 100 metres to north-west of Pepper Arden, South Cowton (1315438)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
