The Great Tythe Barn is a Grade II* listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. A C16 Barn.
The Great Tythe Barn
- WRENN ID
- solitary-hall-dale
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- The Great Tythe Barn, B 6160, Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 072 538
- Coordinates
- 53.98057, -1.89089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great Tythe Barn is a barn that likely dates back to the 16th century. It is constructed from ashlar and rubblestone, topped with a graduated stone slate roof. The barn is single storey and consists of 10 bays. It features two double board doors with segmental arches located in half-dormers, along with other openings from the 19th and 20th centuries on the south side. The roof is large and gableted. Inside, the barn has an aisled layout supported by 9 king-post frames. There are braces connecting the king posts to the ridge pieces, as well as braces from the arcade posts to the tie-beams and purlins, with small intermediate trusses between the bays. The posts are raised on padstones, and there is a threshing floor across the fifth bay. This barn served as the tithe barn for Bolton Priory and is considered a very unusual survival in the north of England.
Local climate
The Great Tythe Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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