Hill Top Farmhouse 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. 2 related planning applications.
Hill Top Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ruined-rafter-snow
- 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
- Address
- Hill Top Farmhouse, Spaunton Bank, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 722 899
- Coordinates
- 54.30013, -0.89163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Top Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1760, with some alterations made in the 20th century. It was likely built for William Hartas. The structure is made of coursed sandstone with tooled quoins and features a pantile roof, which has one stone stack and two rebuilt stacks. The farmhouse has a three-cell, hearth-passage plan with an outshut.
The front of the building is two stories high and has four windows, with the gable end facing the road. There is a half-glazed door located to the left of the center, and a French door inserted in the center, flanked by an enlarged small-pane fire window on the left and an inserted small-pane casement on the right. The end windows are two-light large-pane casements. On the first floor, the windows are large-pane horizontal sliding sashes, with two lights in the center and three lights at each end. All windows have stone sills, with renewed lintels for the ground floor openings and timber lintels for the first floor. The gables are coped with shaped kneelers, and there are stacks at the ends and left of center. The right gable wall features an initial "H" in wrought iron attached above a two-light large-pane horizontal sliding sash.
Inside, the ground floor has square section joists. The center room retains an inglenook fireplace, which has a bar-stopped, chamfered bressumer on a panelled heck and heck post. The fireplace lintel is segment-arched and supported by moulded corbels with plain jambs. To the left of the fireplace, there is a spice cupboard door made of four raised and fielded panels. A door with six raised and fielded panels separates the rooms to the right of the cross passage.
Local climate
Hill Top Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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