Percy Rigg Farmhouse and Attached Cowhouse Range is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1990. Farmhouse, cowhouse range.
Percy Rigg Farmhouse and Attached Cowhouse Range
- WRENN ID
- shifting-quoin-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1990
- Type
- Farmhouse, cowhouse range
- Address
- Percy Rigg Farmhouse and Attached Cowhouse Range, Percy Cross Rigg, Kildale, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- NZ 629 102
- Coordinates
- 54.48348, -1.03057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Percy Rigg Farmhouse and the attached cowhouse range are likely from around 1700, with significant alterations made in 1783 for Charles Turner, as indicated by a datestone. The cowhouse range dates from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. The buildings are constructed of rubblestone brought to course, with pantile roofs featuring stone coping and ridges.
The farmhouse is a two-storey, three-bay structure, with a lower cowhouse that has a loft above it. Additional cowhouse ranges have been added to the front, creating a courtyard on the left side. On the garden elevation, the farmhouse has a plinth and a blocked doorway to the right of the first bay. There is a doorway on the left of the third bay with a 20th-century board door. The windows are tripartite sash types with projecting sills, and there is an inserted 20th-century window to the left of the right bay. The ground-floor openings feature herringbone-tooled lintels with raised keystones, including one over the dated doorway. The eaves have a band, and there are shaped kneelers. Chimney stacks are located at the ends and between the right bays.
The left cowhouse is partially hidden by a later courtyard, which is lower and made of coursed rubble, featuring a plinth, quoins, an eaves band, and various blocked and later openings. Its hipped roof has some pantiles replaced with corrugated asbestos. At the rear, the house has a 20th-century gabled brick porch and various 19th and 20th-century windows with herringbone-tooled sills and lintels, although a 12-pane side-sliding sash window remains on the first floor in the center. The eaves band and shaped kneelers are also present here. The cowhouse has a board door to the left and an inserted double door on the right, with a blocked doorway to its right, as well as slit vents and a blocked pitching hole on the left gable.
Charles Turner, who commissioned the construction or remodeling of this house, was known as an agricultural improver and was responsible for building or rebuilding several farmhouses on the Kildale Estate.
Local climate
Percy Rigg Farmhouse and Attached Cowhouse Range receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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