Dam Head is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. A Post-Medieval House.
Dam Head
- WRENN ID
- distant-spindle-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Dam Head, Wigglesworth
- OS grid reference
- SD 778 560
- Coordinates
- 54.00021, -2.33937
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dam Head is a former farmhouse and stables, now a house, dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of limewashed rubble with painted stone dressings and features a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and consists of four bays, including a right-hand bay that was originally a 19th-century stable.
The entrance is located left of centre and has a plain surround with a door from around 1980. On the ground floor, there are flanking chamfered mullioned windows, with two lights to the left and three lights to the right. The right-hand side has a wooden chamfered mullioned window from around 1980, which is part of the former stable, along with a 1980 door for the entrance. On the upper floor, there are two windows that have been heightened, both featuring two-light chamfered mullions. The windows contain five panes and a mix of casements, sashes, and fixed lights.
The building has several chimney stacks: one on the left-hand gable end ridge, one left of centre on the ridge, and another on the right-hand ridge at the former gable. Inside, there are chamfered spine beams and a cantilevered stone staircase.
Local climate
Dam Head sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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