Sowersett is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1975. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Sowersett

WRENN ID
little-grate-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 January 1975
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Sowersett, Carlton Highdale, North Yorkshire, DL8 4TU
OS grid reference
SE 047 807
Coordinates
54.22252, -1.92842
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sowersett is a mid-18th century farmhouse with adjoining outbuildings, now incorporated into a larger house. The building is constructed of rubble with a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and a 1:2:1 arrangement of first-floor windows. The central section of the house is framed by a pent-roofed two-storey porch and a single-storey pent-roofed porch extension to its left, containing a 20th-century two-light, flat-faced mullion window within an architrave. To the left of the house, on each floor, are similar windows. To the right, there is one bay of original 18th-century three-light, flat-faced mullion windows set within architraves. To the left of the main house is a former outbuilding with a bay of 20th-century two-light, flat-faced mullion windows in architraves. A former outbuilding to the right has quoins on its right-hand side and timber steps leading to a first-floor part-glazed board door. A 20th-century lean-to addition to the right is not of particular interest. At the rear of the house, sash windows are set within quoined surrounds. The left return features two windows reusing parts of the original surrounds of 18th-century windows.

Local climate

Sowersett sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 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 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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  • Radon risk assessment
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