Church Farmhouse 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. 2 related planning applications.

Church Farmhouse

WRENN ID
quartered-storey-acorn
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
Address
Church Farmhouse, Church Lane, Whorlton, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
NZ 478 020
Coordinates
54.41163, -1.26457
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse is a mid- to late 18th-century farmhouse and cottage, built as two separate structures and later combined. It is constructed of evenly coursed, squared, and tooled sandstone, with a pantiled roof featuring a stone ridge, copings, kneelers, and chimneys. The main house is two storeys high and has a symmetrical facade of three bays. The lower cottage is also two storeys high, spanning three wider bays, with the two right bays representing a later addition. Alternating quoins feature on both sections.

The main house has a half-glazed front door with a small, two-pane overlight. Above the door is a blank panel painted to resemble a twelve-pane sash window. Flanking the door are replaced sixteen-pane sash windows on both floors. All the window and door openings have extended lintels with tall, projecting keystones. The cottage has a four-panel door on the left side of the extension and a three-light modern casement window under a similar lintel in the older bay. A plain two-light modern casement window is located above this, and a 19th-century two-light casement window is positioned below. The right-hand bay of the cottage features Yorkshire sash windows.

The roofs are fairly steeply pitched; the main house's roof is slightly swept. It has narrow, curved kneelers and end chimneys with cornice banding. The cottage’s roof has a square kneeler at the right end and a short, plain chimney.

Local climate

Church Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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