Thornesfield Farmhouse and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse, barn.

Thornesfield Farmhouse and Attached Barn

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse, barn
Address
Thornesfield Farmhouse and Attached Barn, Shop Lane, Cowling
OS grid reference
SD 967 437
Coordinates
53.89019, -2.05111
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thornesfield Farmhouse and the attached barn, likely built in the mid to late 17th century, are constructed of rubble with a stone slate roof on the house and an asbestos roof on the barn. The two-storey farmhouse consists of two units and features a continuous outshut at the rear. The entrance is located at the right end of the front and is sheltered by an enclosed stone porch with a gabled roof supported by kneelers. The doorway is chamfered and triangular-headed. To the left of the entrance, there is an unmoulded doorway leading into the left room. The remaining openings are double chamfered mullion windows, with hoodmoulds on the ground floor. These windows include two lights (originally four) and three lights (originally five) on the lower level, and two lights (originally three), two, and two backing each mullion on the upper level. The side and rear also feature two-light mullion windows, with the rear windows lacking mullions, and one five-light window missing only one mullion. There are two chimneys on the farmhouse.

Inside the farmhouse, the right room contains a heck and two beams, with chamfered doorways leading to the outshut and the adjacent room. The barn has large quoins at the front with two original outshuts that have round-headed small lights. A chamfered doorway connects the barn to the house through a recessed wall. Inside the barn, there is a heavy truss supported by corbels.

Local climate

Thornesfield Farmhouse and Attached Barn 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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