Tarka is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. A C18 House.

Tarka

WRENN ID
pitched-sentry-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Tarka, Malham Road, Kirkby Malham, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
SD 894 610
Coordinates
54.04575, -2.16239
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tarka is a 18th-century house located on Malham Road in Kirkby Malham. The building is constructed from rubble and is limewashed, featuring stone dressings and a slate roof. The front slopes have stone coping and kneelers. There are 19th-century stone end stacks with moulded caps. The house is two storeys high and has three bays. The entrance is to the left of the centre, with a door framed by plain square jambs, square bases, plain impost blocks, and a lintel, all set within a 19th-century rock-faced porch that has a coped gable on kneelers. The central first-floor window has a plain flush surround and a 16-pane sash. The other windows are three-light, with plain flush surrounds and flat-faced recessed mullions. The central lights have sashes flanked by fixed lights with glazing bars, and some original glass remains. Modillions are present at the eaves.

Local climate

Tarka sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 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 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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