Croft Head Farmhouse and Attached Railings at Rear is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Farmhouse.

Croft Head Farmhouse and Attached Railings at Rear

WRENN ID
salt-plaster-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Croft Head Farmhouse and Attached Railings at Rear, Wrelton
OS grid reference
SE 767 860
Coordinates
54.26437, -0.82357
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Croft Head Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse located in Wrelton. It is constructed of squared limestone with sandstone ashlar quoins, dressings, and an eaves course, topped by a pantile roof with brick stacks. The building is two stories high and features a three-window front. The entrance is a board door located to the centre left, beneath a blind patterned fanlight. The windows are 16-pane sashes with painted stone sills, and all openings are adorned with tripartite lintels and triple keyblocks. The gables are coped, and shaped kneelers are present. There are stacks at the ends and left of centre.

At the rear, which faces the street, there is a six-panel door with a Gothick-glazed overlight to the right of a round-headed Gothick-glazed window, both set beneath keyed rounded archivolts. To the left, there is a single-storey outshut with a 12-pane sash window. The corners of the outshut are canted and finished with coved corbels at the eaves level.

Inside, the ground floor features beaded joists throughout. The room to the left contains a notable triple-arched hearth with a Wrelton range. In the room to the right of the door, the original fireplace surround, which has fluted jambs and corner roundels, can be seen behind a later fireplace.

The property also includes square-section railings with urn finials, which are raised on a chamfered plinth and partly enclose a small garden. On the south side, the railings span a large square waterbutt made of tooled stone, which collects run-off water from the adjacent range of farm buildings.

Local climate

Croft Head Farmhouse and Attached Railings at Rear receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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