West Bank Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. House. 5 related planning applications.
West Bank Farm
- WRENN ID
- strange-courtyard-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- West Bank Farm, Cow Close Lane, Kirkby Malham, North Yorkshire, BD23 4BU
- OS grid reference
- SD 894 611
- Coordinates
- 54.04628, -2.16262
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Bank Farm is a house dating from the mid-18th century, with extensions made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is built of slobbered rubble with stone dressings and has a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has four bays. The entrance, located between the two right-hand bays, features a moulded surround with a beaded frieze and a cyma-recta cornice, leading to a 20th-century door. The right-hand bay includes a 19th-century window with a plain stone surround on both storeys. The left-hand bay has a 20th-century two-light transomed and mullioned window on each storey. The central two bays boast mid-18th-century three-light windows with cavetto mouldings, along with recessed flat-faced transomed and mullioned windows on each storey. There are stone ridge stacks at either end of the second bay. The left gable features an early 20th-century porch that surrounds a gable end entrance, which has a chamfered surround and a basket-arched lintel carved with the initials R W and the date. At the rear, the staircase window extends the full height of two storeys and is made from parts of 17th and 18th-century windows, featuring both chamfered and plain surrounds. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace with massive voussoirs.
Local climate
West Bank Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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