Bull House Opposite Kail Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1969. A C19 Bull house.

Bull House Opposite Kail Farmhouse

WRENN ID
grim-bracket-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 October 1969
Type
Bull house
Address
Bull House Opposite Kail Farmhouse, Main Street, Thorpe, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
SE 012 616
Coordinates
54.05125, -1.98188
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bull House, located opposite Kail Farmhouse, is a building from the early to mid-19th century that incorporates earlier masonry. It is constructed of coursed squared grey gritstone and rubble, topped with a graduated stone slate roof. The building features random quoins and has a board door on the left, which is set within chamfered quoined jambs and a segmental arched lintel. To the right of the door is a small square opening, while the center of the first floor has a larger round-headed window or narrow pitching eye. There is also a blocked mucking-out hole on the left return. Although it was previously listed as a dovecote, local farmers remember it as a bull house built by a farmers' cooperative.

Local climate

Bull House Opposite Kail Farmhouse 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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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