Higher Stone Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 October 1984. Farmhouse.
Higher Stone Head Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pitched-chalk-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 October 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Stone Head Farmhouse, Stone Head Lane, Cowling
- OS grid reference
- SD 950 434
- Coordinates
- 53.88708, -2.07663
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Stone Head Farmhouse is a farmhouse, probably built around 1800. It is constructed from watershot squared rubble and has a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys. The windows are all recessed square stone mullioned, featuring three lights on either side of a plain doorway, with additional windows above consisting of three, two, and two lights. There are two chimneys on the ridge. An attached barn on the left is not included in this listing. This farmhouse is a good unaltered example of its period.
Local climate
Higher Stone Head Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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