Byre to West of Simon's Garth is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. A C18 Byre.
Byre to West of Simon's Garth
- WRENN ID
- upper-niche-cedar
- 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
- Byre
- Address
- Byre to West of Simon's Garth, Blades, Melbecks, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 980 984
- Coordinates
- 54.3816, -2.03149
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century byre located to the west of Simon's Garth. It is constructed of rubble with a stone slate roof and has two storeys. The front of the building faces the village green and features projecting through-stones and crude quoins. There is one doorway with an ashlar surround on each floor, along with a later doorway on the ground floor to the right. The building also has crudely-shaped kneelers and ashlar copings. It is included in the listing partly for its group value context.
Local climate
Byre to West of Simon's Garth 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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