Barden Tower Farmhouse is a Grade I listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
Barden Tower Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quartered-newel-larch
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Barden Tower Farmhouse, B 6160, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 051 571
- Coordinates
- 54.01048, -1.92351
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barden Tower Farmhouse is a house that was formerly a retainer's cottage of Barden Tower, dating from the 16th century. It is constructed of ashlar, with coursed squared stone and a graduated stone slate roof. The building has three storeys and three bays.
In the left-hand bay, there is a chamfered one-light window, above which is a two-light chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould, and another similar window above that. This bay features a band and a parapetted gable. The central bay has two storeys and includes a chamfered one-light window with a blocked-in doorway to the right. Above this is a three-light chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould, where the lights have elliptical heads. To the right is a small projection, along with a band and a parapetted gable.
The right-hand bay is a three-stage tower, which has a corbelled projection to the left. The second stage features a chamfered one-light window, above which is a three-light window similar to the one in the central bay. This bay also has a band and a plain parapet, with crocketted pinnacles at each corner.
On the right return, there is an offset angle stepped buttress to the right and a wide chamfered elliptical-headed doorway to the left. Above this doorway are two single-light chamfered windows, and the top stage has a window similar to that at the front. The rear of the building has a blocked doorway at the second stage, with a right-angled outside stair that has a plain parapet and chamfered coping. The building features ridge stacks.
Local climate
Barden Tower Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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