Force Head Farmhouse and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1952. House, railings. 1 related planning application.
Force Head Farmhouse and Railings
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-alcove-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1952
- Type
- House, railings
- Address
- Force Head Farmhouse and Railings, East End, Hawes, North Yorkshire, DL8 3RZ
- OS grid reference
- SD 871 893
- Coordinates
- 54.29918, -2.19865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Force Head Farmhouse is a house dated 1711, with early 19th-century iron railings. It is constructed of coursed rubble with a stone slate roof. The house is two storeys high, with two bays. The central doorway has a four-panel door beneath an overlight, all set within an architrave featuring capitals and a keystone bearing the date 1711 (this date was recently recarved after being found on a roof timber). Above the door is a cornice and a detached pediment. The windows are paired 16-pane sash windows set within architraves with flat-faced mullions. A drip-mould runs above the ground floor windows, except where interrupted by the doorway. Chimneys are located at each end of the building. A low rubble retaining wall runs in front of the house, supporting simple iron railings and a central gate with cast-iron urn finials atop standards.
Local climate
Force Head Farmhouse and Railings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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 — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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