Fold House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1987. A C17 Farmhouse.
Fold House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fold House Farmhouse, Barden, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 053 592
- Coordinates
- 54.02889, -1.91965
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fold House Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse constructed from ashlar and coursed rubblestone, topped with a graduated slate roof. The building has two storeys and features three bays with quoins. The left bay contains a board door set in a chamfered surround, which is topped by a massive lintel. The central bay has a four-light chamfered mullion window with a hoodmould, while the right bay features a similar three-light window. On the first floor, there are 19th-century two-light chamfered mullioned windows. The farmhouse has end stacks, with the right stack being corbelled, and one ridge stack.
Local climate
Fold House Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% 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 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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