Pond Head Farmhouse and Attached Barns to East and West is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1988. A C18 Farmhouse and barns. 2 related planning applications.
Pond Head Farmhouse and Attached Barns to East and West
- WRENN ID
- final-tower-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse and barns
- Address
- Pond Head Farmhouse and Attached Barns to East and West, Yearsley Road, Oulston, YO61 3RD
- OS grid reference
- SE 566 745
- Coordinates
- 54.16365, -1.13356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pond Head Farmhouse and the attached barns to the east and west date from the mid-18th century. The farmhouse is constructed of coursed rubble sandstone at the rear and rendered brick at the front, while the barns are made of rubble, with one featuring brick panels, all topped with pantile roofs. The farmhouse is two storeys high with a loft and consists of three bays. The left barn is also two storeys and has three bays.
On the south (front) elevation of the house, there is a central door with leaves below a three-pane fanlight, which has no visible surround but features projecting imposts and a keystone. The ground floor has four-pane sash windows, while the first floor has smaller side-sliding sash windows. The eaves are tabled, and there are shaped kneelers and ashlar coping. The roof has three roof lights and brick end stacks.
The left barn is made of rubble and has a central board door and two windows on the first floor, with coping on the left side. The right barn is also rubble, featuring a central third that has a lightly projecting brick panel with a blocked segmental-arched barn opening. It includes an eaves band, shaped kneeler, ashlar coping, and a white brick end stack on the right.
At the rear of the house, there is a central single-storey late-19th century wing that is not of special interest. The windows here have dressed stone surrounds with keyed lintels. The rear of the right barn matches the front with a brick panel and a segmental-arched opening. The rear of the left barn has doorways with dressed stone quoined keyed surrounds at the center of the ground floor and the top left of the first floor, the latter accessible by external stone steps. There are two windows on each floor and an eaves band. The left return of the left barn features a brick gable above the rubble wall, and the left return of the house has a side-sliding window on the left.
Local climate
Pond Head Farmhouse and Attached Barns to East and West receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- 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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