A SWIMMING pool, gym and other accommodation can be built at Cowesby Hall, Cowesby, the North York Moors national park planning authority has agreed.

Hambleton District Council claimed the scale and proportions of the proposal would appear incongruous in the arrangement of the gabled buildings.

The original Cowesby Hall burnt down in the late 1940s and the present building is a 1950s replacement.

The pool will be in buildings to the east of the hall and behind a former stable block.

The development will replace a number of untidy buildings