Top Building is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. A C17 House.
Top Building
- WRENN ID
- tall-tower-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Top Building, Carlton Highdale, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 055 829
- Coordinates
- 54.24256, -1.91703
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top Building is a house that has been converted into a calf-house and hay-mow. It dates from the late 17th century and is constructed of rubble with a stone slate roof. The building has three storeys and features three openings on the first floor. The quoins are noticeable on the structure.
On the ground floor, from left to right, there is a board door set in a quoined surround, a blocked four-light double-chamfered mullion window, another board door in an ashlar surround with bases, impost blocks, and rounded inner corners to the lintel, along with a recess above that may have once held an inscribed plaque. There is also a surround for a three-light double-chamfered mullion window.
The first floor includes, from left to right, a chamfered fire window and two three-light double-chamfered mullion windows, each missing a mullion. The second floor has two blocked three-light double-chamfered mullion windows. The building is accented with shaped kneelers and moulded ashlar coping.
Local climate
Top Building sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 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 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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