Elbeck Farmhouse and Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. A C18 Farmhouse.
Elbeck Farmhouse and Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lone-pediment-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1958
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Elbeck Farmhouse and Cottage, Main Street, Litton, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 904 741
- Coordinates
- 54.16286, -2.14817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elbeck Farmhouse and Cottage is a house dated 1707, constructed from limestone rubble with a graduated stone slate roof. It has two storeys and three bays, with an additional bay on the right and converted outbuildings to the left, which are not of special interest. The central gabled two-storey porch features a board door on the left, which has chamfered quoined jambs and a stepped chamfered lintel with relief lettering that reads "I.E. 1707." To the right of the door is a recessed chamfered two-light mullion window, which is under a continuous hoodmould. Above this, there is a similar stepped three-light window. The ground floor has similar windows with hoodmoulds, originally consisting of two (now one), four (now two), and four (now three) lights; the left-hand windows have continuous hoodmoulds, lowered chamfered sills, and flat-faced mullions on the second window. The first floor features rectangular windows in plain surrounds, and there are also rectangular windows on the ground floor to the right. A large ridge stack is located to the right of the porch. Inside, a narrow entrance passage in the porch leads to the main living room, which may have originally housed the staircase in the porch room to the right. The main living room contains a large segmental-arched fireplace with a tripartite stone arch, and the flanking stones are inscribed to resemble joggled voussoirs.
Local climate
Elbeck Farmhouse and Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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