A planning application has been submitted for this barn to be demolished.

Please help retain this iconic building by signing this petition!

This Wigginton barn is a non-designated heritage asset. This is just one status below a designated heritage asset protecting it from demolition.

The planning proposal has been submitted by Churchills retirement company who are building the 47 retirement units next door (11 The village). This is to presumably to build yet more retirement homes where the barn is and on the adjoining back field.

The demolition would represent an historic loss to the village and alter its landscape forever, especially after the demolition of 11 The village next door. Other uses could be found to retain this iconic village asset and it’s significant cultural heritage, such as low cost offices for local businesses.

There are currently dozens of retirement properties for sale in Haxby and Wigginton. Surely the retention of this barn is better than adding to the already surplus retirement properties currently for sale without more being added to the saturated market.

If you care about this barn and its loss to the character and history of Wigginton, and you would like to object to its demolition, please sign here or please consider sending an objection to City of York Council. The information you need to submit an objection is below:

(See The Buildings of England. Yorkshire: The North Riding (2023, p.739) (HER no. MYO5293)

A bit of history about the barn, built in the early 19th century:

“The site of a historic farmstead/ tannery, representing a good survival of associated 19th-century buildings which are characterful remnants of a historic village farm. Largely intact evidential significance of an undeveloped farmstead plot. Subsequent histories as tannery, reversion to farming use, and finally the remodelling of the site in c.1970 with house by York-architect Ronald Sims (now demolished) give it additional layers of architectural, historical, community and townscape significance.”

Please sign now to help retain the beautiful and rich history of Yorkshire before it's too late!