Usha Top is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Usha Top
- WRENN ID
- far-beam-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Usha Top, High Lane, Grinton, North Yorkshire, DL11 6NS
- OS grid reference
- SD 992 978
- Coordinates
- 54.37645, -2.01261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Usha Top is a house dated 1662. It is constructed of coursed watershot sandstone with ashlar dressings and has a stone slate roof. The building has a 2-cell axial stack plan, originally of two storeys, with a later rear outshut added. It features crude quoins. A boarded door is located on the left side and has a chamfered quoined surround, a deep lintel with a triangular soffit, and a panel displaying the date. A secondary doorway with a boarded door has been inserted on the right. There are two ground floor windows. The left window is an unequally-hung sash with glazing bars in a stone surround, with an upturned 3-light mullioned-window lintel acting as the lintel. The right window is a 3-light, now 2-light, chamfered mullioned window with a weather course above. Both first floor windows have unequally-hung sashes with glazing bars; the sill of the left window is a re-used drip mould. A raised coping is present on the left side. Three stacks are visible, located at the ends of the building and a larger one between the two rooms.
Local climate
Usha Top sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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