Low Houses Farmhouse and Dairy is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Low Houses Farmhouse and Dairy
- WRENN ID
- graven-brick-flax
- 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
- Low Houses Farmhouse and Dairy, Grinton, North Yorkshire, DL11 6NQ
- OS grid reference
- SD 982 973
- Coordinates
- 54.37156, -2.0284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Houses Farmhouse and Dairy is a building dating from 1840, featuring a farmhouse and dairy under one roof. It is constructed from coursed watershot, hammer-faced stone with a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and an outshut at the rear. The farmhouse section has two bays, with sash windows that include glazing bars, projecting lintels, and sills. The central doorway contains a 6-panel door, which has a panel inscribed with 'J. Harker. Erected in the Year 1840'. There are end stacks on either side. The dairy, located on the right, has a boarded door and a window on the first floor. The right gable end features steps leading up to a first-floor doorway.
Local climate
Low Houses Farmhouse and Dairy sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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