Top Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Top Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- eternal-eave-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1958
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Top Farmhouse, Horton in Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire, BD24 0HZ
- OS grid reference
- SD 783 757
- Coordinates
- 54.17737, -2.3334
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. It is built from slobbered, squared rubble with stone dressings and has a stone slate roof. The building has a three-cell plan and stands two storeys high with three bays. The entrance, located to the right of centre, is in a later gabled porch with a chamfered surround and features a lintel inscribed with "IH 1726" above a plank door.
To the left of the entrance are ground floor windows with three and four lights, featuring chamfered mullions, while the upper floor has two four-light windows, all with slate dripstones. On the right side, there is a large 20th-century ground floor window that reuses 18th-century surrounds, along with the remains of a blocked window. The upper floor originally had a four-light chamfered mullioned window, which has been altered to two lights with only the central mullion remaining. The windows are fitted with five-pane casements from around 1980, designed to imitate former metal casements. The farmhouse has four ridge stacks, with the one on the right now located at the junction with an outbuilding.
Inside, there is an early 18th-century parlour fireplace featuring moulded jambs and a moulded cornice.
Local climate
Top Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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