Flax Mill Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1969. Mill, house. 2 related planning applications.
Flax Mill Farm
- WRENN ID
- empty-timber-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1969
- Type
- Mill, house
- Address
- Flax Mill Farm, Mill Lane, Askrigg, North Yorkshire, DL8 3HR
- OS grid reference
- SD 944 910
- Coordinates
- 54.31504, -2.08645
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Flax Mill Farm is a water-powered textile mill, dating to circa 1785, now used as a house and outbuilding. The building is constructed of rubble with a stone slate roof. It is three storeys high with five first-floor openings, and includes a two-storey rear wing. Quoins are visible, with a straight joint located between bays three and four. Doorways are situated in bays three and four, and on the first floor in bay one. The house at the right end features four-pane sash windows. A stack is positioned between bays three and four, and a large paired stack forms a bellcote at the right gable. Originally built as a cotton mill, it was later converted to a flax mill. Historical context can be found in Hartley M and Ingilby J’s Yorkshire Village (1979), pages 131-135.
Local climate
Flax Mill Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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