Low Houses Byre Approximately 10 Metres South-West of Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1986. Byre.

Low Houses Byre Approximately 10 Metres South-West of Farmhouse

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 July 1986
Type
Byre
OS grid reference
SD 833 877
Coordinates
54.28546, -2.25701
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Low Houses Byre, located approximately 10 metres south-west of the farmhouse, is a byre dated 1727. It is constructed from coursed rubble with a stone slate roof and features two storeys with two openings on the first floor. The building has quoins and on the ground floor, from the left, there is a board door set in a quoined ashlar surround that has a decorative motif in a recessed panel and the date on the lintel. Next to it is a 20th-century panelled door also in a quoined ashlar surround. Above the right door, there are two brackets that support a projecting first-floor platform. On the first floor, from the left, there is a single-light window opening in an ashlar surround and a board door in a quoined ashlar surround.

Local climate

Low Houses Byre Approximately 10 Metres South-West of Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 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 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 69 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 45 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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