Swale Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Swale Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings

WRENN ID
watchful-mantel-sedge
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
Farmhouse
Address
Swale Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings, Richmond Road, Ellerton Abbey, North Yorkshire, DL11 6AN
OS grid reference
SE 074 970
Coordinates
54.36919, -1.88732
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Swale Farmhouse and its attached outbuildings are two dwellings that have been converted into a farmhouse. They date from the 18th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. The building is constructed from coursed watershot rubble and has a stone slate roof. It features a long range with a central house that was originally divided into two, along with outbuildings at both ends, all covered by a single roof. The farmhouse is two storeys high, with a rear outshut added to part of it.

The house has a total of three first-floor windows, plus one modern window. The windows are small, square, four-pane sashes with stone sills and lintels. There are two simple projecting porches, quoins at the corners, and two ridge stacks. The farm buildings on the left side are not of particular interest. The farm buildings on the right, which were formerly used as a cottage and byre, are now a coal-house and byre with a hay-loft above. These buildings have two windows and two doors on the ground floor, along with a pitching door on the first floor. The outshut to the byre includes an end entry cart-shed with a rounded arch made of dressed sandstone voussoirs. There is also a house from around 1898 attached to the rear of the farmhouse, which is not of particular interest.

Local climate

Swale Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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