West Gowbusk Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
West Gowbusk Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- heavy-storey-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- West Gowbusk Farmhouse, Pateley Bridge Road, Sawley, HG4 3EY
- OS grid reference
- SE 237 681
- Coordinates
- 54.10897, -1.63763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Gowbusk Farmhouse is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, which was refenestrated and extended in the early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and consists of two bays, with an additional two-storey bay added to the right. The right bay has a board door set in a plain stone surround, and to the right of this door are 4-pane sash windows with projecting sills and large lintels on both the ground and first floors. The earlier two-bay section likely has a blocked doorway to the right and features recessed-chamfered mullion windows to the left, with the leftmost window having four lights with the mullions removed. On the first floor, there are two casement windows with wooden lintels. The house has end stacks and a ridge stack located above the join between the 17th-century house and the added bay.
Inside, the left room has horizontal timbers that are concealed beneath wallpaper at the ceiling level on the front, rear, and partition walls. The central room contains a large fireplace, a spine beam, and a straight flight of stairs against the rear wall. The house likely originally had a two-cell end-lobby-entrance plan, and the timbers in the left ground-floor room may be remnants of an earlier timber-framed structure.
Local climate
West Gowbusk Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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