Bigber Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Bigber Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-roof-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1958
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bigber Farmhouse, Main Street, Bentham, LA2 7JB
- OS grid reference
- SD 664 693
- Coordinates
- 54.11878, -2.51512
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bigber Farmhouse is a 1727 farmhouse located on the north side of Main Street in Bentham. It is constructed of slobbered rubble stone with stone dressings and a stone slate roof. Originally a three-bay structure, a fourth bay was added to the right-hand side, likely in the 19th century. The central entrance, to the left of centre, features a moulded surround and a decorated lintel inscribed with the date 1727 and the initials "ML"; the door itself is 20th century. A ground-floor two-light, flat-faced mullioned window is positioned to the left of the entrance, while a heightened two-light chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould sits to the right. The upper floor features a 20th-century window with a projecting sill and a three-light and a two-light chamfered mullioned window. The right-hand extension has a window with a plain surround on each floor. The left-hand gable has shaped kneelers and coping. Two gable end ridge stacks are present; the stack to the left projects and is supported by two stone corbels. The interior is not accessible.
Local climate
Bigber Farmhouse 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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 — 8 transactions since 2000
- 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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