East Little Town is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1999. Farmhouse.
East Little Town
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-entrance-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1999
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- East Little Town, Hawes Road, Garsdale, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 758 898
- Coordinates
- 54.30381, -2.37224
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
East Little Town is a farmhouse with an attached outbuilding, likely built in the late 17th century and altered over time. It features roughly coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and a slate roof. The building has a single-depth, two-unit plan oriented on an east-west axis, positioned back from the road and facing south.
The exterior consists of two low storeys with four windows. The ground floor includes a central added lean-to porch that shelters an old double-layered studded oak door, which is framed by a pegged oak doorcase and fitted with strap hinges, a pull-handle, and a large wooden lock on the inside. To the left of the door are two oblong fixed windows with six and eight panes respectively, while to the right is an enlarged oblong window. On the first floor, there are three windows, now fitted with top-hung casements, and a small square window between the second and third windows, which has been converted into a tilting casement. The left gable features stone coping and a broad square chimney that extends approximately one metre into the roof, differing from the local practice of corbelled chimneys. The right gable has a corbelled chimney, which is enclosed by the added outbuilding. At the rear, there are two small widely separated one-light windows on the ground floor, a blocked stair-window in the centre, and a wide stone slate course above on the upper floor.
Inside, there is a lateral stone partition wall to the right of the doorway, with an inserted partition to the left under a chamfered beam. The joists on either side of this area are scored, and similar joists are found in the parlour to the right. There is a short quarter-turn stone staircase located off the rear corner of the housepart, which now serves as the entrance hall.
Local climate
East Little Town sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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