Friar House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1989. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Friar House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
waiting-marble-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North York Moors National Park
Constituency
Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 July 1989
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Friar House Farmhouse, Goathland, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
NZ 832 019
Coordinates
54.40649, -0.71936
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Friar House Farmhouse is a mid-18th century farmhouse that was rebuilt from an earlier structure and raised and altered in 1836, as indicated by a datestone. The building is constructed of rubble sandstone and features a pantile roof. It has a three-cell, hearth-passage plan and is a low, two-storey structure with a two-window front. There is a one-storey wing on the left and a one-storey lean-to outbuilding on the right.

The front entrance includes a six-panel door with two glazed lights located at the right end of the wing, while there is an altered doorway at the left end with a partly shuttered window. Between the doorways, there is a small two-pane sash window set in a chamfered surround. Both doorways feature herringbone-tooled quoins and roughly tooled lintels. The two-storey section has a single fixed-light fire window at the left end and an inserted four-pane casement at the right end. There are also two 2-light 20th-century casements in vestigial quoined and chamfered surrounds between these windows.

The first-floor windows are unequal nine-pane sashes with stone sills. The building has raised eaves, coped gables, and block kneelers, along with end corniced stacks. The outbuilding features a plank door with square unglazed lights and a roughly tooled lintel, topped with a pent roof. At the rear, there is a cross-passage doorway in a quoined opening with a roughly tooled lintel inscribed with the initials "H T M" and the date "1836". The rear windows are 2-light horizontal sliding sashes with four-pane and six-pane lights. The interior has not been inspected but is reported to be unmodernised.

Local climate

Friar House Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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