Lowstead Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1986. A C18 Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Lowstead Farmhouse

WRENN ID
inner-plaster-vetch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North York Moors National Park
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 February 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lowstead Farmhouse, Main Street, Levisham, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
SE 833 903
Coordinates
54.30209, -0.72127
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lowstead Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the late 18th century and incorporating an earlier 18th-century structure, with later alterations. The building features dressed sandstone on the left range and hammered sandstone with raised sandstone ashlar quoins on the right, while the rear is constructed of sandstone rubble. It has a pantile roof with brick and ashlar stacks. The layout follows a 3-cell hearth-passage plan, with an outshut.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with a two-window arrangement on the high end and a single window range to the left, which is low storey with an attic. A 20th-century half-glazed door is located beneath an overlight to the right of the low end. To the left, there is a two-light, small-pane horizontal sliding sash window with a timber lintel, and a similar window is found on the first floor. A 20th-century dormer is present in the attic. The high end features four-pane sashes with painted stone sills in raised painted surrounds and has a stepped eaves course.

At the rear, there is a 1½-storey outshut to the high end, which includes quoins. The upper floor has two two-light, small-pane horizontal sliding sashes. The building is topped with coped gables and shaped kneelers, and it has end stacks at the high end and a central stack at the low end.

Local climate

Lowstead Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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