Shoregill Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. Farmhouse.

Shoregill Head Farmhouse

WRENN ID
vacant-merlon-acorn
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
Shoregill Head Farmhouse, Melbecks, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
SD 936 982
Coordinates
54.38, -2.09929
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Shoregill Head Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from 1679. It is built of rubble on a boulder plinth and features a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and a rear outshut, with two windows on the first floor. The quoins are crude, and there is a doorway in the right corner with a chamfered quoined surround and a triangular soffit to the lintel, which bears a recessed panel with the date. Above the door is a hood-mould, and the door itself is a 20th-century four-panel design. The ground floor has double-chamfered mullioned windows, with original windows present on the ground floor and under the hood-moulds. The first floor features later, taller mullioned windows under weather courses. The ground floor includes a three-light window, a blocked single light, a fire window, and a two-light window that was originally a four-light. The farmhouse has shaped kneelers, ashlar copings, and stacks located at the left end and center. Inside, the right-hand room has two ceiling beams that are chamfered and stopped, and there are wooden stairs in the rear outshut. The outbuildings to the left are not of special interest.

Local climate

Shoregill Head Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 62 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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