Ankness Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Farmhouse, outbuildings.

Ankness Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings

WRENN ID
distant-cinder-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North York Moors National Park
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 June 1987
Type
Farmhouse, outbuildings
Address
Ankness Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings, Bransdale Road, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
SE 638 935
Coordinates
54.33322, -1.01898
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ankness Farmhouse and its attached outbuildings date from the mid-18th century, with an extension noted on the lintel from 1789 and further alterations in the 19th century. The farmhouse was built for George Sigsworth and later extended by Isaac Waind. The main house is constructed of herringbone-tooled sandstone, while the outbuildings are made of tooled sandstone and feature a pantile roof. Originally designed as a two-cell, gable-entry plan, the farmhouse was later extended to the right, with a turf house added to the left and a barn to the right.

The farmhouse is two stories high with a three-window front. The turf house has two stories, and the barn is one and a half stories tall. The main entrance to the house features a half-glazed, panelled door beneath a canopy, located to the right of the center. The windows throughout the property are 2-light, 4-pane casements with stone sills and diagonally tooled lintels. Above the door, there is a tooled lintel inscribed with "I I W 1789." The eaves course to the left of the door is coved, while to the right it is stepped. The building has end and centre chimney stacks.

The turf house has no openings on the front, with a coped gable and a shaped kneeler on the left side. The barn features a plank door beneath a diagonally tooled lintel, with a coped gable and shaped kneeler on the right side. At the rear, there is a chimney stack on the right inscribed with "17(indecipherable):GS." Inside, the ground-floor rooms to the left of the passage have chamfered beams with run-out stops, as well as additional chamfered beams.

Local climate

Ankness Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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