Croft Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1982. House.
Croft Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-vault-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Croft Farmhouse, Main Street, Hessay
- OS grid reference
- SE 522 533
- Coordinates
- 53.97327, -1.20516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Croft Farmhouse is a house dating from the mid to late 18th century. It is built of brick in English bond and has a stone slate roof. The house features a three-cell plan with a blocked doorway on the left cell. It stands two storeys high and has three first-floor windows. The entrance consists of a four-panel door set beneath an elliptical arch. The windows are two-light Yorkshire sashes with glazing bars, with two on the left under elliptical arches and four on the right beneath flat brick arches. There is a first-floor band and a cogged eaves course. The house has two ridge stacks and the gable ends show signs of tumbling-in. On the right gable end, there are metal tie plates with the initials WH.
Local climate
Croft Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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