Whartons Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1987. A C19 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Whartons Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- solemn-corner-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Whartons Farmhouse, Church Row, Melsonby, DL10 5LX
- OS grid reference
- NZ 198 085
- Coordinates
- 54.47157, -1.69446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wharton's Farmhouse is a mid-19th century farmhouse built for the Duke of Northumberland. It is constructed from coursed rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and an irregular plan with three bays on the front. The corners are marked by quoins, and there are mullion windows with hoodmoulds throughout.
A central two-storey projecting gabled porch, also quoined, has a panelled board door set in a double-chamfered basket-arched ashlar surround with a hoodmould. Above the door is a two-light window, and there is a light vent in the coped gable, along with a single-light window on the left side of the porch. The bays on the left and right each contain three-light windows. The building is topped with moulded coping and has double octagonal ashlar stacks at each end.
At the rear, there are triple-roofed ranges with stacks on the outer gables, a single-storey range to the rear left, and a lower two-storey range to the rear right with a Welsh slate roof. Fluted lead rainwater heads are present on the rear and left sides. It is said that the farmhouse was once a public house known as "The End of All Things."
Local climate
Whartons Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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