East Garth is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1989. A C17 House.
East Garth
- WRENN ID
- tenth-rafter-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- East Garth, Litton, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 904 738
- Coordinates
- 54.16078, -2.14801
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
East Garth is a house and outbuilding dating from the early 17th century, with alterations from the 18th century and an added outbuilding. The structure is built from limestone rubble and has a graduated stone slate roof. It is a two-storey, two-bay house with a one-bay outbuilding. The house features a part-glazed board door on the right, which has chamfered jambs and a triangular head with a chamfered lintel, along with a projecting drip-stone above. To the left, there is a two-light recessed chamfered mullion window, and above it, a two-light flat-faced mullion window. The outbuilding has a board door on the left and a small opening on the right, which may have been used for mucking out. A ridge stack is located at the left end of the outbuilding.
At the rear, there is random fenestration, including a large inserted 18-pane window at the center of the ground floor, a smaller 12-pane window to the right, three small chamfered lights to the left of center, and an enlarged two-light recessed chamfered mullion window to the right. The first floor of the house has a similar window with three lights, although the mullions are missing. The interior has not been inspected during the resurvey but is reported to contain a large fireplace. East Garth is a rare example of a small 17th-century house, which may have originally been only one storey and one bay, with a half-bay storage area. The roof was raised in the 18th century when the byre was added or modified. A 20th-century extension at the left end includes masonry from the Old School House, a former grade II listed building that stood approximately 10 meters south of East Garth.
Local climate
East Garth 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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