Barn and wheel-house approximately 30 metres north-west of the western farmhouse at High Cayton is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1966. Barn, wheel-house.
Barn and wheel-house approximately 30 metres north-west of the western farmhouse at High Cayton
- WRENN ID
- dusted-pilaster-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1966
- Type
- Barn, wheel-house
- OS grid reference
- SE 285 632
- Coordinates
- 54.06439, -1.56518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a threshing barn and wheel-house, dating from the early to mid-19th century, located approximately 30 metres north-west of the western farmhouse at High Cayton. It is constructed from coursed squared pink-grey gritstone and features a pantile roof with two or three eaves courses of stone slates. The barn has seven bays and a polygonal wheel-house at the rear of bays five and six. Notable architectural features include quoins, a tall segmental-arched cart entrance with an edge-tooled surround on the west side, a byre door to the left with a plain surround, and a square window to the right. There are pitching doors under the eaves in bays two and five. The rear of the barn has a central threshing door and a byre door on the far left. The wheel-house has a hipped roof and rectangular openings under the eaves.
Inside, the original roof structure remains intact, although the wheel-house machinery is missing. The barn contains six queen post trusses. This structure is situated on part of the site of the deserted village of High Cayton and is included for its group value.
Local climate
Barn and wheel-house approximately 30 metres north-west of the western farmhouse at High Cayton receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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