High Skibeden Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 March 1978. Farmhouse.

High Skibeden Farmhouse

WRENN ID
over-loft-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 March 1978
Type
Farmhouse
Address
High Skibeden Farmhouse, Harrogate Road, Skipton
OS grid reference
SE 020 527
Coordinates
53.9709, -1.97085
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

High Skibeden Farmhouse is an early 18th century and early 19th century building located on Harrogate Road. It is two storeys high with stuccoed stone walls and a stone flag roof. The entrance features a central Tuscan doorway with a pediment supported by engaged columns. There are two windows on the ground floor and three above, all of which are modern and set within plain stone architraves. The older part of the farmhouse is lower and has very thick stone walls, a new French window/door, one old window below, and two above with stone mullions consisting of three lights, featuring square and splayed mullions. At the rear, there is a round-headed stair window. Inside, the farmhouse includes a stone spiral staircase.

Local climate

High Skibeden Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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