Weston is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. The village is 1.2 miles north–west of Otley and near the River Wharfe which forms the boundary between North and West Yorkshire.
The oldest part of Weston Hall which remains standing is the North Tower which dates from the late 15th century. One of the oldest rooms in the Hall displays a plaster ceiling embossed with symbols of Henry V11 and a fireplace above which sits shields of the Vavasour and Savill families as Mauger le Vavasour had married Johannes Savill. After a fire which destroyed much of the balance of the Hall, it was rebuilt in the 16th and 17th centuries, a fact which presumably accounts for the lack of symmetry in the external appearance of the Hall
The Banqueting Hall or the Dining Tower is also Grade 1 and was built by Mauger le Vavasour in approximately 1600. It is one of the best preserved late Tudor Banqueting Halls in Britain. It was reputedly linked to the Hall by a tunnel although the tunnel has long since disappeared.
The tithe barn (Grade 2) is at least as old as the oldest part of the Hall. Its roof timbers, props and pegs are made of forest oak and they are still clearly visible.
The Ice House was built in 1832 and stored ice that was brought to England from America. It was transported down Church Lane and brought in through a side gate. Staff would climb down into the ice store and chip off what was needed for the Hall.
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