Murk Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Murk Head Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pale-lead-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Murk Head Farmhouse, Gatela Lane, Harwood Dale, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 950 957
- Coordinates
- 54.34822, -0.53859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Murk Head Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1740. It is constructed of squared grey sandstone and features a slate roof with brick stacks. The building has a direct-entry plan that is one and a half rooms deep and is two storeys high with an attic. The symmetrical front has three windows. The central entrance consists of a 20th-century hall-glazed door set beneath a rectangular fanlight, all within a round-arched opening that has a keystone. The doorcase is adorned with an open dentilled pediment supported by panelled pilasters. The original openings contain 20th-century pivoted windows with glazing bars and keyed lintels. At the rear, there is a four-panel door with a rectangular fanlight and glazing bars. A fire window is located in the right gable wall. The farmhouse has coped gable ends and plain kneelers on its double span roof, with end stacks on the front span and one end stack on the rear span. Inside, there are 18th-century panelled doors in all the ground floor rooms.
Local climate
Murk Head Farmhouse receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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