Hill Top House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.

Hill Top House

WRENN ID
keen-marble-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 October 1985
Type
House
Address
Hill Top House, Back Lane, Malham, North Yorkshire, BD23 4DJ
OS grid reference
SD 899 631
Coordinates
54.06417, -2.15538
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill Top House is a house dating back to approximately 1830, with a rear wing from the 18th century. The main house was constructed at a right angle to this older wing and subsequently altered in the 19th century. The house is built of combed sandstone ashlar with a stone slate roof. It is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with the central bay set back. The entrance features a Greek revival portico with a plain entablature supported by unfluted Doric columns. All windows are two-light designs with a wedge lintel, plain sill, and a recessed panel below, containing sashes. The upper floor windows have ten panes each. A string course runs below the window sills, and the eaves are dentilled only at the central bay. Gable end ridge stacks are present.

Inside, the house retains the original 19th-century staircase plan and fittings.

The rear wing is constructed of slobbered rubble with stone dressings and a stone slate roof, and also has two storeys and three bays. The central entrance has a plain surround and a moulded gabled hood; the former six-panel door has its lower two panels boarded, while the upper two feature diamond bolection mouldings. A three-light window from the 18th century is present on the ground floor, with a plain surround and recessed flat-faced mullions. The central sash remains, while the outer lights are fixed with 21 panes each. The remaining windows are 19th-century replacements, though the upper floor window to the right of centre replaces a wider, lower 18th-century window. There are gable-end chimneys at the left-hand side and at a former right-hand gable.

Local climate

Hill Top House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • 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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