Spella Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1989. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Spella Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- peeling-facade-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Spella Farmhouse, Harryfield Lane, Marton-Cum-Moxby, YO61 1NU
- OS grid reference
- SE 596 699
- Coordinates
- 54.12237, -1.08916
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spella Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1800, with some alterations made in the 20th century. It is constructed from coursed squared stone and rubblestone, topped with a pantile roof. The building has a central stair-hall entry plan and stands two storeys high with an attic, featuring two first-floor windows. The corners of the building are marked by quoins. There is a central six-panel door with an overlight, and above it is a medieval carved stone angel holding a shield, likely reused from Marton Priory.
The ground floor has mid to late 20th-century small-pane casement windows, which are tall and have monolithic lintels, while the first-floor windows are shorter with two-piece lintels. The eaves feature a decorative band, and the raised verges have moulded kneelers and ashlar coping. There are tabled brick stacks at each end of the building.
To the left, there is a 20th-century conservatory that is not of special interest. At the rear, a lean-to porch from around 1980 is also not of special interest, and there are flat brick arches with keystones above the 20th-century small-pane windows. The rear continues to have an eaves band and a 20th-century lean-to on the right, which is not of special interest.
On the left side, a former wash-kitchen outshut has a board door, shaped kneeler, coping, and a corner stack. The right return features an outshut with a circular rubblestone pier and brick infill below a tie-beam with V struts, along with an eaves band. The left return has an eaves band and a small attic window.
Local climate
Spella Farmhouse receives an average of 770 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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 — 3 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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