Hill Top Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1967. Farmhouse.

Hill Top Farmhouse

WRENN ID
leaning-terrace-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Selby MP: Keir Mather (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 February 1967
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Hill Top Farmhouse, Claypit Lane Ls25, Ledsham
OS grid reference
SE 454 296
Coordinates
53.76161, -1.31176
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill Top Farmhouse is a farmhouse that may have a 17th century wing attached to an earlier building, restored in the 19th century, or it could be a 19th century cottage designed in a 17th century style. It is constructed from magnesian limestone rubble with some quoins and features a steeply-pitched stone slate roof. The building has a T-plan layout, consisting of a single cell front block with a rear service wing.

It stands two storeys high and has a plinth with chamfered coping. The east front features a chamfered doorway with a four-centred head, and to the right is a 19th century three-light mullioned window with a hoodmould. The south gable wall has a recessed double-chamfered three-light stone mullioned window on each floor, both with hoodmoulds and showing signs of heavy weathering, although some unweathered surfaces reveal traces of 19th century chiselling. The north gable wall includes an external chimney stack with two diagonal chimneys, and to the left of this is a first-floor window. The rear wing has one bay and two lower storeys, with altered openings. The eaves project at the ends of small purlins.

Inside the front block, there is an inserted partition that creates an entrance passage from the front door, but there is no visible evidence of the 17th century structure.

Local climate

Hill Top Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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